Workshop with Mark Solms – February, Berlin

 

A PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION TO NEUROPSYCHOANALYSIS: CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS

Berlin

8-9 February 2018

International Psychoanalytic University
Berlin

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 and registration details.

This workshop will offer CME credits.  Attendees 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, which are still being determined).

Refreshments and lunch will be provided.

PROGRAM

DAY 1: 

THEORETICAL LESSONS

Morning Session 1

• 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

• 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 

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

 

DAY 2:

CLINICAL LESSONS

Morning Session 1

• 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

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

Afternoon Session

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

To reserve your place for this workshop, please send an email,
including your title, contact number, email address, profession and affiliation to info@ipu-berlin.de.

Registration Closing Date: Wednesday, 24 January 2018

Cost: €190

Note: Banking details for payment will be sent following receipt of your registration details.

The workshop takes place on 8 and 9 February 2018
at International Psychoanalytic University, Stromstraße 1, D-10555 Berlin.

For enquiries, please send an email to info@ipu-berlin.de.