The Importance of a Psychoanalytical Approach to The Treatment and Understanding of Alcohol Consumption

4 p.m. (Central European Summer Time – UTC+2)

Online via Zoom

This webinar will be held in Spanish.

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

A presentation of a vignette from the practice of the psychoanalyst Mila Petkova, PhD.

Although psychological and physiological effects of alcohol use are well documented, the molecular basis behind this remains a subject of study. Common effects like cognitive impairment, motor incoordination, as well as intoxication and tolerance/dependence are likely linked to the interaction of ethanol molecule with major brain receptors and neurotransmitting pathways. Alcohol usage for recreational purposes is deeply rooted in cultural norms. It is important to explore, under transference, the subject’s relationship with the substance, the underlying unconscious drives and inhibitions, and what symptoms and anguish the subject self-medicates by drinking. From neuropsychoanalytical perspective we are taking both a psychoanalytical and a neurobiological approach to decompose the factors of habitual and excessive alcohol consumption not limited to the cases when physiological addiction is formed

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.