AINPSA May 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

Alicia Golijov, Mila Petkova and Fidel Lolo will be discussing “What Hurts When My Head Aches?” The presentation proposes a neuropsychoanalytic model of migraine, suggesting that migraines are not only neurological events but also embodied expressions of unresolved early emotional microtraumas. It integrates affective neuroscience (especially Jaak Panksepp’s emotional systems), predictive brain theories, and neurovascular biology to explain how conflicts between attachment, separation, and aggression may become encoded in bodily regulation and later emerge as migraine pain.

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.