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Neuropsychoanalysis - Bridging psychoanalysis and the neurosciences

Workshop with Mark Solms – Mexico City

Neuropsychoanalytic Training Workshop

Mexico City, Mexico | Nov 5, 2018 - Nov 6, 2018

A PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION TO NEUROPSYCHOANALYSIS:
CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS

Venue
Universidad Intercontinental

Av de los Insurgentes Sur 4303, Sta Úrsula Xitla, 14420 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico


With this workshop attendees will accumulate credit for a clinical register being established by the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society. Completion of the workshop will count towards qualifying criteria for placement on the register, though there will be additional requirements (to be formally announced). 

Cost:  250 USD. Students 200 USD
Location:  Auditorium Francisco Xavier

Enquiries: Daniela Flores Mosri at ppsicoanaliticadfm@gmail.com or npcdmexico@gmail.com

To register, please scroll to the bottom of this page.

PROGRAMME

DAY 1:
THEORETICAL LESSONS

Session 1 (10:00 – 12:00)

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

Session 2 (12:30 – 14:30)

  • 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)

Session 3 (16:00 – 18:00) 

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

DAY 2:
CLINICAL LESSONS

Session 4 (10:00 – 12:00)

  • 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

Session 5 (12:30 – 14:30)

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

Session 6 (16:00 – 18:00)

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

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