Case vignette from Sara Uccella, neuropsychiatrist and psychotherapist at the University of Genova-Institute of Giannina Gaslini (Italy)
A webinar hosted by the Iberian Neuropsychoanalysis Association (AINPSA)
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
Sara will be discussing the case of a 16-year-old girl from Senegal, who came to clinical attention for a second opinion for an anti-MOG optic neuromyelitis (NMO) that was diagnosed in her native country six months before and adequately treated with immunomodulant therapy. Her father, who left Senegal for Europe when she was ten (to obtain better working and living conditions), asked for the evaluation. The girl was evaluated, discharged and followed up for both her neurological disease and a depressive symptomatology, initially presumed to be reactive to the recent diagnosis of NMO; however, a dissociative symptomatology soon became apparent, and a history of major childhood trauma was discovered. We will discuss the clinical symptomatology and the origins of her disease on the basis of both clinical neuroscience and psychoanalysis, with some perspectives on the transcultural aspects of the case.
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.