Join us! (Registration works best on a computer; we’re working on our mobile settings) Neuropsychoanalysis music and comedy night Thursday, October 24 Private musical venue near Columbia University Address to be shared after ticket purchase 7:30-8:30 pm: Buffet dinner and drinks, dessert and Prosecco 8:30-9:30 pm: Open mic – comedy, music, and performances with links…
For Want of Ambiguity: Order and Chaos in Art, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience
Everything changes, moves, varies, appears and disappears in the environment around us and within our selves. This continual change has modeled our nervous system to extract a sort of stability out of what is not stable. The stability, as sole consolation, rescues us from the inevitability of our fate. Indeed, we adopt patterns in order…
Re-minding Consciousness
Research and Clinical Implications
Prof. Mark Solms, Prof. Shaun Gallagher, Prof. Oliver Turnbull and Dr. Shlomit Yadlin-Gadot, the world’s leading researchers in the fields of psychoanalysis, neuropsychology, neurophenomenology and neuropsychoanalysis will talk about diverse topics such as the biological function and contextualised nature of affective consciousness, experience as uncertainty, the conscious experience of sex, the intentionality of consciousness and enactivisim,…
Play for a Change: Therapeutic Action in Contemporary Child Psychotherapy
Bryn Mawr College’s Department of Social Work and Social Research, The Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia, Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, APA Division 39’s Section on Children and Adolescents, and The Philadelphia Center for Psychoanalytic Education Venue Thomas Great Hall, Bryn Mawr College, 101 N. Merion Ave, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 Children…
Consciousness
Italian Psychoanalytic Dialogues / NPSA Conference
What is consciousness? What is its purpose and its origin? Awareness, wakefulness, metacognition, subjectivity, experience, phenomenal manifestation? All through the development of Western thinking, philosophers and scientists have been investigating what Arthur Schopenhauer defined as the “cosmic knot” (Weltknoten). The debate has since branched out from the domain of philosophy and become central within the…