Neuropsychoanalysis - Bridging psychoanalysis and the neurosciences
Casey Schwartz has worked as a staff writer at Newsweek/The Daily Beast, where she covered neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times and The New York Sun. A graduate of Brown University, she also has a degree in psychodynamic developmental neuroscience from University College, London. Her book In the Mind Fields: Exploring the New…
THE UNCONSCIOUS TODAY 26th September 2015 9:30am – 5:30pm 9:00 – 9:40 Registration and coffee 9:40 – 9:45 Welcome – Carol Seigel, Director of the Freud Museum THE UNCONSCIOUS AND THE BRAIN 9:45 – 10:45– Mark Solms – The Id is Not Unconscious 10:45 – 11:15 Discussion Chair: David Tuckett 11:15 – 11:45 Coffee break…
In psychoanalysis we create conditions for change. Successful treatment leads to many changes – in defenses, representations of self and other, and much more. Given the recent investigation of plasticity in neuroscience, what can we say today about the mechanisms of change in psychoanalysis? And how might this advance our clinical work?