New Developments in Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis – Fred Busch

New Developments in Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis Series
This exciting new online series hosted by the Neuropsychoanalysis Association throughout 2022 will showcase the cutting-edge knowledge that is currently emanating from neuroscientific disciplines and the field of psychoanalysis. The series includes presentations from leading authorities that will enhance neuropsychoanalytic understanding, while at the same time inspire our multidisciplinary community. The series will demonstrate the amazing variety of topics that are relevant to the fascinating field of neuropsychoanalysis.

Fredric Busch, MD

Friday, March 11
11:00 a.m. – 1 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time)

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The webinar will be 2 hours long.

Our minds, or psyches, operate within the potentialities and limits of biologically based brain and body systems. Problems in the functioning of these systems, in conjunction with environmental pressures, can lead to psychopathology. Of particular relevance are systems that regulate aggression, anxiety, and attachment; those that translate somatic states to emotions and symbolized representations; those involving memory, including of traumatic and adverse events; and those that identify mental states in self and others. I will discuss how a better understanding of these systems through neuroscience and brain studies informs our psychoanalytic conceptions and approaches, using panic disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder as models.

Bio
Dr Busch is a clinical professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and a faculty member of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. His writing and research have focused on the links between psychoanalysis and psychiatry, including psychodynamic approaches to specific disorders, psychoanalytic research, and psychoanalysis and medication. He has co-authored five books on the psychoanalytic approaches to specific disorders, including the Manual of Panic Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Psychodynamic Treatment of Depression (second edition), Psychodynamic Approaches to the Adolescent with Panic Disorder, and Panic Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, eXtended Range, and Trauma Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. He is the sole author of Psychodynamic Approaches to Behavioral Change and Problem-Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. Additionally, he co-authored a book titled Psychotherapy and Medication: The Challenge of Integration. His most recent book is Psychodynamic Approaches to Behavioral Change. He has written on integrating biological and psychological/emotional models for panic disorder and trauma. He has been involved in research on panic focused psychodynamic psychotherapy, and more recently on psychodynamic treatment of PTSD. His efforts have included the development of treatments, training of therapists and treatment of patients in several studies. These studies have led to the first psychodynamic treatment of a DSM anxiety disorders to demonstrate efficacy, panic focused psychodynamic psychotherapy. He is currently involved in the development of the manual and training and supervision of practitioners in a study of psychodynamic treatment of trauma at the Veterans Administration New York Harbor Healthcare System. Dr Busch’s activities include a wide range of teaching.  He is the co-chair of and instructor in the Fourth Year Theory course at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research on “Contemporary Issues in Psychoanalytic Theory: Brain, Body and Mind”. He teaches psychodynamic treatment of depression to candidates at the Center in the psychopathology course. Dr Busch teaches residents at Weill Cornell, NYU and Creedmore, and psychoanalytic candidates at Columbia and the New York Psychoanalytic Institute on psychodynamic research and psychodynamic approaches to panic, anxiety and depression. In addition, he teaches courses in Psychotherapy section of the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center on integrating psychodynamic approaches and medication, and psychodynamic treatment of panic disorder and depression. Dr Busch also lectures internationally.

CPD credits: 2
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