From Neuron to Human Being

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

The Neuropsychoanalysis – Open School

is happy to invite you to join
our fundamental course in Brain Development

The course will focus on key aspects of:

Bios
Professor Itai Berger (MD) is a specialist in Pediatrics, Pediatric Neurology and Child Development. He serves as the Head of Pediatric Neurology at Assuta-Ashdod University Hospital, Associate Professor in Pediatrics at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva. He is also an Associate Professor (adjunct), at the School of Social Work and Social Welfare, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His primary clinical and research interests involve early brain development, the factors affecting it (both genetic and environmental), and the impact on long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes with a special focus on cognitive (higher) functions and the prenatal (in-utero) environment.

Irith Barzel-Raveh is a Senior Clinical Psychologist and supervisor in Psychotherapy. She is the Founder and Chairwoman of the Israeli Neuropsychoanalytic Society, and a founder member and a Board member of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society. She coordinated the course “Normalcy in Infancy” at the Tel Aviv University Medical School. She taught Infant Observation in collaboration with Tavistock to a range of professionals from multiple disciplines. She was a head clinical psychologist of the Neuropediatric infant development center for the Tel-Aviv area and was head of 26 well-baby transdisciplinary clinics. She is a specialist in Professor Heinz Prechtel’s method of functional assessment of fetus General Movement (functional assessment of the brain). She is enrolled in a Ph.D. program in Psychoanalysis and Hermeneutics at Bar-Ilan University, where she is working on her dissertation under the guidance of Dr. Aner Govrin and Professor Mark Solms. She also works at her private clinic.