The experience of the Self and the development of transference processes in an amnesic patient with traumatic brain injury from a Neuropsychoanalytic approach

4 p.m. (Central European Time – UTC+1)

Online via Zoom

This webinar will be held in Spanish.

Please contact Alicia Golijov for further information and to register:
aliciagolijov@gmail.com

Presenter: Dr Lisandro Vales (PhD in psychology and MSc in psychoneuroimmunoendocrinology) from Montevideo, Uruguay.

The psychotherapeutic work is presented from a neuropsychoanalytic approach to an amnesic patient with a traumatic brain injury (TBI) who was in a neuropsychological rehabilitation program at the Hospital de Clínicas de Montevideo in Uruguay. Characteristics of the TBI and the rehabilitation team at the Hospital de Clínicas will be mentioned, and the importance of psychodynamic approaches as part of rehabilitation programs will be discussed. Through the psychotherapeutic process, it is observed that the transference processes mediated by memory systems where not only those of episodic memory intervention (Turnbull et al., 2006; Moore et al., 2017). This fact has contributed towards being able to carry out a good one-year psychotherapeutic process, and to take it into account as a technical aspect for the treatment of these patients. The importance of working on the subjective experience and restructuring of the Self is highlighted (Salas, 2008; Prigatano, 2011), helping to reduce patients’ frustration, anxiety, anguish, and confusion, while taking into account the daily and existential needs of their personalities.

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.