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Past Pfeffer Center Lectures

Home > Who We Are > The Neuropsychoanalysis Association > The Neuropsychoanalysis Foundation > The Pfeffer Center > Past Pfeffer Center Lectures

Lectures at the Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis

of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (NYPSI)

Jaak Panksepp– “Human Brain Evolution: Preclinical Modeling of the Mind & the Search for New Antidepressants” (5/2015)

Daniela Schiller – “Forgetting Fear” (4/2015)

Mark Solms  – “A Neuropsychoanalytic Perspective on Drives, Instincts and Affects” (3/2015)

Alan Anticevic – “Understanding Psychopathology Through Neuroimaging and Computation” (2/15)

Rachel Marsh – “Control and Reward Circuits in Disorders of Self-Regulation” (12/6/14)

Elizabeth Auchincloss – “Listening with a Neuropsychoanalytic Ear” (11/6/14)

NPAP Group : “Three NPAP Clinicians Discuss Their Work (6/14)

Clinical Neuropsychoanalysis Center – “Three Cases of Psychoanalytic Therapy with Neurological Patients” (6/7/2014)

Open Forum – “Thinking About the Brain in Everyday Clinical Work” (5/3/2014)

Mark Solms – “Insights from Anosognosia: Seeing Through the Mind’s Eye” (4/5/2014)

Robert DeSalle “Hanging Our Brains on the Tree of Life” (3/1/2014)

Vilyanur Ramachandran (Pfeffer Prize lecture)

– “Freud and Neurology” (2/1/2014) – No video available.

Anjan Chatterjee and Eric Marcus “Cosmetic Neurology: The antithesis of psychoanalysis” (12/14/2013)

Hakwan Lau “Sensory Metacognition & Conscious Awareness” (11/2/2013)

Francis Lee – “Fear Learning & Memory Across Adolescent Development” (10/5/2013)

Bharat Biswal – “Insights from the Resting Brain: Methods, Models & Applications” (6/01/2013)

Zoran Josipovic – “Finding Nonduality:  Meditation in light of neuroscience and modern psychology” (4/6/2013)

Uri Hasson – “The fMRI of Dyadic Communication” (3/2/2013)

Katerina Fotopoulou – ” The “Body-in-Relation” self: psychodynamic and neural mechanisms of joined salience. (2/2013) 

David Garfield and Richard Lane – “Becoming Aware of Feelings: Integration of Cognitive-Developmental, Neuroscientific and Psychoanalytic Perspectives” (12/1/2012)

The “Conscious Id” Revisited – A Panel Discussion with Heather Berlin, Jaak Panksepp and Mark Solms (11/3/2012)

Rodolfo Llinas– “On Self and Self Awareness” (10/6/2012)

Open Forum – ” What does Neuropsychoanalysis mean to you?” (6/2012)

Various Speakers – Dreams Conference (5/2o12) 

Francois Ansermet and Pierre Magistretti – “The Neurobiology of Freedom: Neural Plasticity & the Dynamic Unconscious” (3/2/2012)

David Schab – “Psychotherapy for the Mind, Pharmacology for the Brain?” (12/3/2011)

Mark Solms – “The Conscious Id” (11/5/2011)

Georg Northoff – “Neuropsychoanalysis – How Can We Practice Such A Transdisciplinary Enterprise?” (10/1/2011)

Cristina Alberini – “The Dynamic Memory Trace” (6/4/2011)

Maggie Zellner – “Building the Psychodynamic Brain: Correlating the Big Pictures” (5/7/2011)

Siri Hustvedt  –  “Three Emotional Stories” (4/2/2011)

Jaak Panksepp  –  “Affective Continuity?  From SEEKING to PLAY – Science, Therapeutics and Beyond” (3/5/2011)

Todd Feinberg – ” Neuropathologies of the self: A General Theory” (2/2011)

B.J. Casey – ” Adolescence: What does Transmission, Transition, and Translation have to do with it? (12/2010) 

fMRI Panel: Fertuck, Erbe, Ripoll, and Siegel – “Neuropsychoanalysis in the Scanner” (11/6/2010)

Vittorio Gallese – “From Mirror Neurons to Embodied Simulation” (10/2/2010)

Yoram Yovell – “Anxiety: One or Two?” (6/6/2010)

Alice Entin and Aideen Nunan- ” Clinical neuropsychoanalysis: Two Case Reports” ( 4/2010) 

Heather Berlin – “The Neural Basis of the Dynamic Unconscious” (3/6/2010)

Orrin Devinsky – “Limbic Lessons from Epilepsy” (2/6/2010)

Maggie Zellner – “The Neural Substrates of Drive, Motivation and Cathexis” (12/12/2009)

Bruce McEwen – “Central Role of the Brain in Stress and Adaptation” (11/7/2009)

Stephen Suomi – “New Insights about Attachment in Rhesus Monkeys” (10/3/2009)

Brian Koehler – “Neuropsychoanalysis and Psychosis.” (6/2009) 

Jesse Prinz – “The limits of consciousness: what research on psycho-neural correlates of conscious experience reveals about our access to thoughts, self and emotions. (5/2009)

Robert Stickgold – “The Cognitive Neuroscience of sleep and memory: What’s in a dream?” (4/2009)

Beatrice Beebe – “The Origin of 12-month disorganized attachment: a microanalysis of 4-month mother-infant-interaction.  (3/2009)

Ned Block – ” inattentional blindness and the nature of Consciousness.” (2/2009) 

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