Neuropsychoanalysis - Bridging psychoanalysis and the neurosciences
This meeting is very kindly supported by the M.Phil. in Psychoanalytic Studies, School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin, and the Irish Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Professor Solms is a South African psychoanalyst and neuropsychologist. He holds the Chair of Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital (Departments of Psychology and Neurology). He is the President of the South…
Neuropsychoanalysis starts from the assumption that the brain and mind are the same thing, considered from two different observational perspectives (objective and subjective, respectively). This implies that everything we have learnt about the brain has implications for how we conceive the mind, and vice versa. It is evidently dichotomous to have two different and incompatible theories…
Fotopoulou, A., & Tsakiris, M. (2017). Mentalizing homeostasis: The social origins of interoceptive inference. Neuropsychoanalysis, 1-26. To view this article, please click here This event is free and open to the public. No RSVP required; first come, first seated. All welcome!
Abstract: We meet ourselves and others on the basis of emotionally structured, effective beliefs that we hold about relationships. When our feelings and actions conform to such effective beliefs, but we have no or little subjective access to the beliefs, we call them ‘unconscious’. When our effective beliefs mislead us, psychotherapy often helps us construct…
What neuropsychoanalytic thoughts are you thinking these days? Come to the Pfeffer Center this Saturday and engage in an open discussion with colleagues about the ideas you’ve been exploring. Pondering consciousness, or the unconscious? Working with patients with brain injury? Thinking about predictive coding? Or something completely different? Maybe you had a brainstorm…