NPSA

Neuropsychoanalysis - Bridging psychoanalysis and the neurosciences

NPSA meets Faculty of Medical Psychotherapy Neuroscience Interest Group

Neuroscience Study Day

Tavistock Clinic, 120 Belsize Lane NW3 5BA | Apr 8, 2017

Clinical presentations and neuroscience of dreaming and trauma
Visiting speaker and discussant: Earl Hopper 

09:00-09:30: Registration and Refreshments

09:30-11:00: Discussion of three papers led by: Jim Hopkins, John Hook and Cynthia Fu

  • Mark Solms New Findings On The Neurological Organization Of Dreaming: Implications For Psychoanalysis(1995). Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 64:43-67

  • T Fischmann, M O Russ, M Leuzinger-Bohleber – (2013) Trauma, dream, and psychic change in psychoanalyses: a dialog between psychoanalysis and
    the neurosciences. Frontiers in Neuroscience

  • Robin Carhart-Harris Waves of the Unconscious: The Neurophysiology of Dreamlike Phenomena and Its Implications for the Psychodynamic Model of the Mind (2007) Neuropsychoanalysis 9:2, 183-211

11:30: Morning Refreshments

11:30-13:00: A clinical commentary on trauma and dreaming — Dr Earl Hopper

13:00-13:45: Lunch

13:45-14:30: Neuroscientific and clinical perspectives on dreaming and trauma: An attempt at synthesis — Dr Susan Mizen 

14:30-15:30: Group discussion

15:30-16:00: Afternoon Refreshments

16:00-16:45: Future developments of MP neuroscience interest group and London NPSA group

16:45: Close

For booking please complete this form: CALC-MedPsychNeuroSci Day Form 17-2

Payment can be made by sending the attached form together with a cheque or bank details on the form, or by emailing the form to viral.shah@rcpsych.ac.uk and telephoning 02037012622 to make a card payment.