NEUROPSYCHOANALYSIS OF INFANCY, 1st Conference

Please note – this event is not hosted by the Neuropsychoanalysis Association. For any questions regarding registration please contact Irith Barzel-Raveh at: irbarzel@gmail.com

Hotel Quirinale, via Nazionale 7.
Hybrid Form

The Child-Development Conference in Neuropsychoanalysis invites scholars and clinicians to a multidisciplinary exploration of early human development, tracing the emergence of mind from the embodied beginnings of life. Under the theme “From Body to Mind: Fetus–Child Development” the conference brings together neuropsychoanalysis, developmental neuroscience, psychology, and psychoanalytic theory to examine how subjectivity, individuality, and relational capacities are formed from the earliest stages of existence.

Early Bird Registration fee (Until February 28, 2026)

In person: 150 euro
Online: 75 euro

Please click here to register to attend either in person or online.

Programme
(Please click here to view the full programme with
the presenters’ abstracts and bios.)

Morning Session

Chair: A. Clarici

10.00 A. Clarici
Opening

10.30-11.15 K. Fotopolou
Sentience and the Breast: How Psychophysiological Parent-Infant Interactions gives Rise to the Psychological Self

11.15-12.00 I. Barzel-Raveh
The process and the transformational mechanism of imitation: From Chaos to structure, free will, and Creativity

12.00-13:00

Audience Discussion

13:00-14:00

Break

Afternoon Session

Chair: Y. Salz

14.00 Y. Salz
Opening

14.15-15.00 R. Spagnolo
Two bodies-two brains relationship

15.00-15.45 C. Alberini
Learning and memory in early life and the biological basis of individuality

15:45-16:00

Coffee break

16.00-16.45 G. Esposito
The Synchronising Brain in Early Development: Pathways to Attachment, Regulation, and Social Understanding

16.45-17.30 P. Moore
Does the foetus dream?
Sleep organization from foetus to childhood

17.30-18.30
Audience discussion