A Beginner’s Guide to a Neuropsychoanalytic Model of the Brain and Mind

Maggie Zellner, Ph.D., L.P.

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This webinar will be approximately two hours long.

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Neuropsychoanalysis is a generative yet challenging project, because we’re bringing together two complex realms:  psychoanalytic theory and technique, on the one hand, and neuroscientific models of brain function. It’s a lot of fun, but also requires a lot of knowledge! This talk is designed to help newcomers find some points of contact and make some links, building a bridge between brain and mind from a psychodynamic perspective. We will review some of the organizing principles of brain regions and networks. We will also survey some neuroscientific hypotheses about emotion, memory, cognition, self-other processes, and regulation, in connection with psychodynamic ideas. The intention is to provide a road map to newcomers interested in neuropsychoanalysis, and to give some examples of how brain processes can be connected with everyday clinical experience. At the same time, this talk may also be a jumping-off point for those engaged with neuropsychoanalysis for a while, when thinking about metapsychology and clinical work in new ways.

Maggie Zellner, Ph.D., L.P., is a neuropsychoanalytic educator and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She is the Executive Director of the Neuropsychoanalysis Foundation in New York, and Managing Editor of the journal Neuropsychoanalysis. Maggie received her Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in the Neuropsychology Sub-program at Queens College. She is a founding member of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society, and a graduate and member of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP) in New York. Maggie has taught neuroscience to the psychoanalytically-minded since 2003.

CPD credits: 2