Do you ever feel like it’s too hard to find your way as a parent when faced with all the conflicting parenting info online? And how about all the opinions of friends and well-meaning family members? Do you ever wish for a better way of understanding your child’s experiences, emotions, and needs? Well then, keep reading. On Thoughtful Parenting, you will find a discussion among psychologists and parents about the issues that we struggle with the most.

Dr. Corinne Masur is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice. She treated children for over 40 years and now sees parents, adolescents and adults and runs an ongoing parents’ group  She is on the faculty of The Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia and has written about child development, early childhood bereavement, the development of trust, depression, the importance of pets to maintaining psychic equilibrium, and other subjects.  She is the author of two books: How Children Grieve: What Adults Miss and What They Can Do to Help and When a Child Grieves: Psychoanalytic Understanding and Technique, and the editor of two more: Finding the Piggle: Reconsidering D. W. Winnicott’s Most Famous Child Case and Flirting With Death: Psychoanalysts Consider Mortality and she is the recipient of the Gradiva Award, 2019, for best edited book in psychoanalysis. She has also taught and lectured extensively. Dr. Corinne Masur can be reached at menschwoman@gmail.com

To learn more about support groups being offered for parents of infants and toddlers, and individual parental guidance sessions, contact Dr. Masur.