Neuropsychoanalysis - Bridging psychoanalysis and the neurosciences
Following the Tavistock’s successful workshop in October in which Prof Mark Solms outlined his new theoretical developments, a workshop on December 14th will focus principally on formulating clinical presentations using neuropsychoanalytic thinking. Prof Solms will consider cases from the perspective of an emerging clinical model that draws on advances in affective neuroscience. Of particular significance to the model are recent…
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…
Theme of Symposium: Partners in Creation. “In the arts and psychoanalysis, partners in creation experience the perils of rivalry and fusion as well as the pleasures of intimacy and mutual discovery”. Please click here to visit the Symposium website for further information about this event.
NEUROPSYCHOANALYSIS: IMPLICATIONS FOR CLINICAL TECHNIQUE Special keynote speaker Nancy McWilliams Nancy McWilliams teaches at Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology and practices in Lambertville, New Jersey. She is author of Psychoanalytic Diagnosis (1994, rev. ed. 2011), Psychoanalytic Case Formulation (1999), and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (2004) and is associate editor of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual, 2nd ed. (2017). A former president of Division…