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Weekend Workshop with Mark Solms – December, NYC

Neuropsychoanalytic Training Workshop

New York City | December 9, 2017 - December 10, 2017

 

A PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION TO NEUROPSYCHOANALYSIS: CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS
New York City
December 9-10, 2017

The Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis
of the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute
247 East 82nd Street, New York, NY

How do emerging models of the brain and mind inform clinical practice?
Join Mark Solms for an overview of key topics in neuropsychoanalysis that enrich our theory and technique. A series of in-depth lectures will be presented, followed by detailed discussions of clinical material. See below for program.  Click here to register.

This workshop provides CME credits for psychologists, psychiatrists, physicians, and social workers (estimated 8-12 hours, to be announced soon). It is unfortunately not able to provide credits for licensed psychoanalysts (LPs). 

Attendees will receive a certificate of attendance and will also accumulate credit for a clinical register being established by the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society. Completion of the workshop will count towards certification when the register opens (there will also be additional requirements, still being determined).

Morning and afternoon coffee and refreshments will be provided.  Registration does not include lunch.

PROGRAM

SATURDAY: THEORETICAL LESSONS

Morning Session 1 (09:00-11:00)

  • The affective basis of consciousness (the conscious id)
  • The unconscious nature of cognition (the unconscious ego)
  • Working memory: the role of consciousness in cognition

Morning Session 2 (11:30-13:30)

  • Consolidation, automatization and repression (the ‘cognitive’ and ‘dynamic’ unconscious)
  • Reconsolidation (“consciousness arises instead of a memory trace”)
  • Repression and defense (the return of the repressed)

Afternoon Session (15:00-17:00)

  • Life’s problems: a taxonomy of drives, instincts and affects (implications for psychopathology)

SUNDAY: CLINICAL LESSONS

Morning Session 1 (09:00-11:00)

  • Implications of the conscious id for the ‘talking cure’
  • Why our patients suffer mainly from feelings
  • The meaning of symptoms
  • The actual task of psychoanalytic treatment
  • Countertransference (affective and object-relational dimensions)
  • Why transference interpretation is mutative
  • Why psychoanalytic treatment takes time: ‘working through’

PRACTICAL EXAMPLES

Morning Session 2 (11:30-13:30)

  • First case presentation (by a workshop participant) and discussion

Afternoon Session (15:00-17:00)

  • Second case presentation (by a workshop participant) and discussion

For enquiries, please contact Aimee Dollman at aimeedollman@gmail.com.

Members of NYPSI and of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society receive reduced registration fees.
Low student rates are available; seats are limited.
You may join the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society as part of your registration.
To learn more about the benefits of Society membership, please click here.

To see fees, or to register, click here.