AINPSA April 2026 Meeting

Please note – this event is not hosted by the Neuropsychoanalysis Association. For any questions regarding registration please contact the organiser (see details below).

4 p.m. (Central European Summer Time – UTC+2)

Online via Zoom

This webinar will be held in Spanish.

Please contact Alicia Golijov for further information and to register:
aliciagolijov@gmail.com

Our colleagues Lisandro Vales (PhD in Psychology, an MSc in Psychoneuroinmunoendocrinology and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology; Uruguay), Rebeca Robertson (psychologist with a Master’s in Psychodynamic Counselling, specializing in relational therapy for couples, older adults, and children, UK) and Emilia Gyr (clinical psychologist and neuroscience researcher with a strong foundation in psychoanalysis and neurophysiological research) will presenting the symposium “Micro and Macro Processes of Psychic Change in Psychotherapy: A Neuropsychoanalytic Perspective”: This symposium presents recent advances in the study of psychic change in psychotherapy from a neuropsychoanalytical perspective, integrating micro- and macro-process approaches through clinical case studies. Psychic change is conceptualized through change episodes, defined as clinically significant segments of therapy characterized by increased cognitive complexity and transformations in patients’ subjective patterns of interpretation, including the development of new personal theories about the self and others. These transformations involve modifications in internal representations, defensive patterns, affective organization and expression, mentalization capacities, and relational modes. Drawing on the model developed by Krause and colleagues, change episodes are identified using a system Generic Change Indicators (GCI), hierarchically organized into three stages: (I) initial consolidation of the therapeutic relationship, (II) increased permeability to new understandings, and (III) construction and consolidation of new subjective meanings. The symposium includes one microprocess study focusing on fine-grained analysis of specific session segments, and two macroprocess case studies examining the global evolution of change across the entire course of psychotherapy. Together, these contributions aim to illustrate how moment-to-moment transformations are articulated with long-term therapeutic change, offering an integrative framework for understanding the dynamics of subjective transformation in psychotherapy.

About the AINPSA
The Iberian Neuropsychoanalysis Association (AINPSA) has emerged as the result of a common interest shared by people among psychoanalytical, neuroscientific, and biological backgrounds. Our main goal is to facilitate the study, research and dissemination of Freud’s ideas together with their current developments in neuropsychoanalysis. By holding regular meetings we aim at promoting open dialogue between different disciplines and groups to broaden and deepen our understanding of the body/mind relationship in a dual-aspect monism way. Topics include, but are not limited to, consciousness and free-energy principle, biological underpinnings of the mental, psychosomatology, affective and cognitive neurosciences, etc. We also want to create and develop neuropsychoanalytical projects with practical applications in Health, Arts and Education.