1) Brinich, P. M. (1976, October). Echoes of a family secret in the analysis of a latency boy. Paper presented in Wednesday lecture series, Hampstead Child-Therapy Clinic, London.

2) Brinich, P. M. (1977, July). A baby has been stolen: The first year of analysis of a ten-year-old adopted girl. Paper presented in Wednesday lecture series, Hampstead Child-Therapy Clinic, London.

3) Brinich, P. M. (1977, October). Deafness and psychological development. Paper presented to Division of Child Psychiatry, University of California, Davis.

4) Brinich, P. M., Evans, J. W., & Schlesinger, H. S. (1978, August). Consultation to a unit for multi-handicapped children in a residential school. Paper presented to National Conference on Deafness and Mental Health, University of California, San Francisco.

5) Brinich, P. M. (1978, November). Deafness as a developmental interference. Paper presented at the First Symposium on Infant Psychiatry: Its Theoretical and Clinical Significance, University of California, San Francisco.

6) Schlesinger, H. S., Evans, J. W., & Brinich, P. M. (1978, December). Psychological issues of deafness. Paper presented to interdisciplinary colloquium, Fall Meeting, American Psychoanalytic Association, New York.

7) Brinich, P. M. (1979, March). Hearing impairment, developmental disabilities, and mental health. Paper presented at Workshop on Hearing Impaired/Developmentally Disabled, San Antonio, Texas.

8) Brinich, P. M. (1979, September). Prevention of some common developmental deviations associated with deafness: The contribution of the mental health professional. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Psychological Association, New York.

9) Brinich, P. M. (1980, August). Communication and the development of intrapsychic structures in deaf children. Paper presented at the International Congress on Education of the Deaf, Hamburg, Germany.

10) Brinich, P. M. (1981, November). Adoption and adaptation: Some statistics and a case illustration. Paper presented at Child Psychiatry Rounds, University Hospitals of Cleveland and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

11) Brinich, P. M. (1982, March). Working with and through parents. Paper presented at conference on The Care and Nurturing of Infants and Toddlers, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

12) Brinich, P. M. & Brinich, E. B. (1982, July). Adopted children and adaptation: Research, case illustrations and conclusions. Paper accepted for presentation at the International Congress of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions, Dublin, Eire.

13) Brinich, P. M. (1982, October). "Being a dog, it will never change": Parents, young children and aggression. Paper presented at Psychiatry Rounds, Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital and at Child Psychiatry Rounds, University Hospitals of Cleveland and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

14) Gispert, M., Brinich, P. M. & Nickman, L. (1983, November). The inner world of a schizoid adolescent as seen in his art and his treatment. Paper presented at Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

15) Brinich, P. M., Boitel, C., Neuer, N. & Wheeler, K. (1983, November). Individual and family crises following the killing of a child by a sibling. Paper presented at Child Psychiatry Rounds, University Hospitals of Cleveland and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

16) Brinich, P. M. (1984, April). Childhood losses, mourning, and adaptation. Paper presented at Psychiatry Grand Rounds, University Hospitals of Cleveland and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

17) Brinich, P. M., Boitel, C., Neuer, N. & Wheeler, K. (1984, June). Children involved in the death of a sibling: Clinical and theoretical issues. Paper presented at Eastern Regional Conference, Child Welfare League of America, Washington, D.C.

18) Brinich, P. M. (1984, October). The first year of analytic treatment of an atypical boy. Paper presented to Child Analytic Seminar, Cleveland Center for Research in Child Development, Cleveland, Ohio.

19) Brinich, P. M. (1984, November). Losses in childhood. Paper presented at Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital and at Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio.

20) Brinich, P. M. (1984, November). Discussion of Dr. David Freedman's paper, "On the development of motivational structures". Paper presented at a meeting of the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Society, Cleveland, Ohio.

21) Brinich, P. M. (1985, February). Discussion of Dr. David Rue's paper, "Cardiac transplantation: An adolescent experience". Paper presented at Child Psychiatry Rounds, University Hospitals of Cleveland and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

22) Brinich, P. M. (1985, December). The second year of analytic treatment of an atypical boy. Paper presented to the Child Analytic Seminar, Cleveland Center for Research in Child Development, Cleveland, Ohio.

23) Brinich, P. M. (1986, January). Adoption, ambivalence, and mourning. Invited paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Northern California Regional Organization of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Carmel, CA.

24) Brinich, P. M. (1986, March). Parents by default: Love, anger, and rigidity in grandmothers and aunts who become caretakers of children whose mothers have died. Paper presented at a symposium on Preventive Mental Health Services and Major Bereavements, Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York.

25) Brinich, P. M. (1986, April). Stresses at home: Divorce and death. Paper presented at a symposium on Stress and Stress-related Disorders in Childhood: Recognition and Management, Department of Psychiatry, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio. [Available on tape: Audio-Digest Psychiatry, Vol. 15, No. 12 (June 23, 1986).]

26) Brinich, P. M. (1986, April). Family responses to the loss of a loved one. Paper presented at Women's Health Day, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio.

27) Brinich, P. M. (1986, October). Chronically ill children, their parents, their teachers, and their classmates. Paper presented at a program on Chronic Illness in the Classroom: Critical Issues for Educators, Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio.

28) Brinich, P. M. (1986, November). Children of dying parents: Assessment and assistance. Paper presented to the Northeast Ohio Social Work Oncology Group at Fairview General Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio.

29) Brinich, P. M. (1987, February). Social and psychological aspects of adoption. Paper presented at Resources: An Exchange on Current Issues, one of a series of conferences sponsored by the School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

30) Brinich, P. M. (1987, April). The Hampstead Child-Therapy Course and Clinic: A personal view. Paper presented to the Division of Child and Adolescent Services at The Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

31) Brinich, P. M. (1987, April). Children's responses to childhood stress. Paper presented at a conference on Traumatic Stress: Current Innovations, sponsored by the Center for Stress Recovery of the Cleveland Veterans Administration Medical Center and the CWRU School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio.

32) Brinich, P. M. (1987, April). Adoption, ambivalence, and mourning (revised version). Paper presented to the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Bradley Hospital and Brown University School of Medicine, East Providence, Rhode Island.

33) Brinich, P. M. (1987, October). The Childhood Loss Program: A review of the first four years. Talk presented to the Division of Child Psychiatry of the Royal Free Hospital, London, England.

34) Brinich, P. M. (1988, January). Death and the schools: A psychological plan of action. Paper presented at Child Psychiatry Rounds, University Hospitals of Cleveland and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

35) Brinich, P. M. (1988, July). Parents by default: Love, anger, and rigidity in relative caretakers of orphaned children. Paper presented at the International Conference on Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society, London, England.

36) Brinich, P. M. (1988, December). Death notes: Talking to children about death. Talk presented to Critical Care Unit staff and faculty, Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Ohio.

37) Brinich, P. M. (1989, February). Dealing effectively with children experiencing loss. Talk presented to Cleveland Area Unit, Ohio Chapter, National Association of Social Workers, Cleveland, Ohio.

38) Wortman, R., Brinich, P. M., & Kennedy, J. (1989, June). Who pays for psychiatric care? A comparison of the U.S., Great Britain and Canada. Talk presented to Child Psychiatry Rounds, Division of Child Psychiatry, University Hospitals of Cleveland and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

39) Brinich, P. M. (1989, October). Roots of adoption. Invited paper presented at the 35th Annual Chestnut Lodge Symposium, Chestnut Lodge Hospital, Rockville, Maryland. Also presented at: Psychiatry Grand Rounds, University Hospitals of Cleveland and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio (December, 1989).

40) Brinich, P. M. (1989, October). Psychoanalytic psychotherapy with adoptees. Paper presented as part of a symposium entitled "Problems of adoption: Familial, developmental, and biological findings as guides to treatment" at the 36th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York, New York.

41) Brinich, P. M. (1990, February). Roots of adoption: Insights from clinical and applied psychoanalysis. Paper presented to the Psychoanalytic Society of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario.

42) Brinich, P. M. (1990, June). Over-representation of adoptees in clinical populations: How much and why? Invited paper presented at a workshop entitled "Research on infant adoption: Current status and future directions" sponsored by the Center for Population Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Washington, DC.

43) Brinich, P. M. & Gray, K. (1991, February). Children, war, and death: Containing [anxiety] and maintaining [support]. Talk presented at Child Psychiatry Rounds, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC.

44) Brinich, P. M. (1991, March). Children and their reaction to crisis. Talk presented at Family Awareness Night, Northern Granville Middle School, Oxford, NC.

45) Brinich, P. M. (1991, March). Adoption from the inside out: A psychoanalytic perspective. Invited paper presented to the Massachusetts Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology, Cambridge, MA.

46) Kitson, G. C., Clark, R. D., Rushforth, N. B., Brinich, P. M., Sudak, H. S., & Zyzanski, S. J. (1991, July). Coping with difficult topics: Methodological observations on violent death research. Paper presented at the Third International Conference on Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society, Sydney, Australia.

47) Brinich, P. M. & Amaya, M. (1991, October). Children and war: Past studies of the relationship of anxiety and defense to stress and trauma. Paper presented as part of a symposium entitled "Psychological impact of war upon children and adolescents" at the 38th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, San Francisco, CA.

48) Brinich, P. M. & Amaya, M. (1991, October). Containing, restraining, and maintaining: Primary prevention in war-time. Paper presented as part of a symposium entitled "Psychological impact of war upon children and adolescents" at the 38th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, San Francisco, CA.

49) Brinich, P. M. (1992, August). Parent-child ambivalences, the "family romance", and Oedipus' flight from Corinth. Paper presented as part of a symposium entitled "Psychoanalysis and culture" at the 100th Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Washington, DC.

50) Brinich, P. M. (1993, January). Psychoanalytic perspectives on adoption and ambivalence. Paper presented to the North Carolina Psychoanalytic Society, Chapel Hill, NC.

51) Brinich, P. M. & Amaya, M. (1994, October). "I didn't know I could be that nice": Adolescent inpatients as tutors of child inpatients in a psychiatric hospital. Paper presented as part of a workshop entitled "Child psychiatry and education: Partners in intervention and rehabilitation" at the 41st Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York, NY.

52) Brinich, P. M. (1996, May). Adoption and ambivalence. Grand Rounds presentation, Detroit Psychiatric Institute, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI.

53) Brinich, P. M. and Peacock, R. (1996, November). Adoption and foster care within the continuum of care. Paper presented as part of the conference, “Changes and challenges in child psychiatry and child mental health: A window on the 21^{st century” at the Friday Center for Continuing Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC.}

54) Brinich, P. M. (1997, April). A discussion of Brian Friel’s play, Molly Sweeney. Paper presented as part of the series, “Center Stage Saturdays” at Playmakers Repertory Company, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC.

55) Brinich, P. M. (1997, May). Narrowing the scope (of indications for psychoanalysis and psychotherapy): The importance of truth in advertising. Grand Rounds presentation, Detroit Psychiatric Institute, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI.

56) Brinich, P. M. (1997, September). Discussion of Professor Vamik Volkan’s paper, Borderline psychopathology and international relations. Paper presented to the North Carolina Psychoanalytic Society at the Lucy Daniels Foundation, Cary, NC.

57) Brinich, P. M. (1999, November). Narrowing the scope and protecting the independence of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Paper presented at The Anna Freud Centre, London, on November 10, 1999.

58) Brinich, P. M. (2000, April). Freud's dreams and their descendants. Paper presented as part of the program, “Freud, Dreams, and Psychoanalysis: 1900-2000,” sponsored by the UNC-CH Program in the Humanities and Human Values.

59) Brinich, P. M. (2002, March). Discussion of Helene Keable’s paper, The case of Ms. A. – Some inroads into the uncharted territory of surrogacy. Paper presented to the Association for Child Psychoanalysis at the Washington Duke Inn, Durham, NC.

60) Brinich, P. M. (2002, April). Discussion of Judith Fingert Chused, M.D.’s paper, What do analysts do: Interpretations and beyond. Paper presented to the North Carolina Psychoanalytic Society at the Lucy Daniels Foundation, Cary, NC.

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