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Education Day talks
Maggie Zellner: An overview of psychodynamic defenses
(Note: the first portion of this talk is in Spanish; a translation may be provided in the future)
Slides: An overview of psychodynamic defences
Oliver Turnbull: Remembering and feeling
Slides: Turnbull Remembering and feeling Part 1 (pp, 1-20)
Turnbull Remembering and feeling Part 2 (pp. 21-36)
Turnbull Remembering and feeling Part 3 (pp. 37-69)
Nikolai Axmacher: Inhibition: Decay or suppression?
Slides: Inhibition: Decay or suppression?
Plenary symposium
Conceptual and experimental approaches to repression: a discourse between philosophy, neuroscience and psychoanalysis
Beate Krickel: Repression: Impulsive removal from consciousness and protective miscategorization
Slides: Repression: Impulsive removal from consciousness and protective miscategorization
Simon Boag: Metapsychology, neural inhibition, and the structure of repression
Slides: Metapsychology, neural inhibition, and the structure of repression
Gerd Waldhauser: The cognitive neuroscience of repression
Slides: The cognitive neuroscience of repression
Ariane Bazan: Alpha synchronization as a neurophysiological model for unconscious defense: Evidence from combined clinical-ERP studies
Slides: Alpha synchronization as a neurophysiological model for unconscious defense: Evidence from combined clinical-ERP studies
Plenary talks
Michael Anderson: Keeping a spotless mind: The neuroscience of motivated forgetting
Slides: Keeping a spotless mind: The neuroscience of motivated forgetting
Cristina Alberini: Remembering, forgetting, and the neurobiological bases of identity
(Audio file to be posted soon)
Slides: Remembering, forgetting, and the neurobiological bases of identity
Daniela Flores Mosri: Defence at the border: Repression or depression – it’s always about affect
Slides to come soon
Ariane Bazan: Repressive border control by sensorimotor inhibition and return of the repressed as phoneme phantoms
Slides: Repressive border control by sensorimotor inhibition and return of the repressed as phoneme phantoms
Mark Solms: Repression, defence, and the cognitive unconscious
Slides: Repression, defence, and the cognitive unconscious
Nikolai Axmacher: Experimental approaches to repression
Slides: Experimental approaches to repression
Néstor Braunstein: Memory’s jouissance (enjoyment) and memory of jouissance
(Video to come)
Closing remarks – Mark Solms
Suggested reading (more to come)
Krickle 2018 states underlying implicit biases
Anderson Huddleston Nebraska Published
Anderson Hanslmayr Published Final