Continued Exploration of Clinical Neuropsychoanalysis: A One-Day Workshop

9:00 am – 5:00 pm

How do emerging models of the brain and mind inform clinical practice? Join Mark Solms, Ph.D. for an overview of ideas in neuropsychoanalysis that enrich our theory and technique. Two analytic case presentations will then be followed by detailed discussions of clinical material from a neuropsychoanalytic perspective.

Morning and afternoon coffee and refreshments will be provided. Lunch is not included in registration; participants will go out for lunch at nearby restaurants.

 

PROGRAM

Session I  (9:00 – 11:00 am)

Overview of neuropsychoanalytic insights:

• The affective basis of consciousness (the conscious id)
• The unconscious nature of cognition (the unconscious ego)
• Automatization and repression (the ‘cognitive’ and ‘dynamic’ unconscious)
• Reconsolidation, repression, and defense (the return of the repressed)

Session II  (11:30 – 1:30 pm)

Case presentation by Nina Tager, M.D., followed by discussion

LUNCH BREAK (1:30 pm – 3:00 pm)

Session III  (3:00 – 5:00 pm)

Case presentation by Jane Hall, LCSW, followed by discussion

 

2 CME/CE credits offered per session. 6 CME/CE credits offered for the program in its entirety.

 

PURCHASE TICKETS HERE  

 

Mark Solms, Ph.D. is best known for his discovery of the forebrain mechanisms of dreaming, and his pioneering use of psychoanalytic methods and theories in contemporary neuroscience. Born in Lüderitz in 1961, he was educated at Pretoria Boys’ School and the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He moved to London in 1988, where he worked at the Royal London Hospital (Honorary Lecturer in Neurosurgery) while he trained at the Institute of Psychoanalysis. He returned to South Africa in 2002, where he now holds a Professorship in Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town. He is president of the South African Psychoanalytical Association, member of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and Honorary Member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society. Honours include the George Sarton Medal for contributions to the history and philosophy of science (Rijksuniversiteit Gent, 1996), the International Psychiatrist award for contributions to American psychiatry (American Psychiatric Association, 2001) and the Sigourney Prize for contributions to psychoanalysis (2012). He is chair of the Research Committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He has published more than 300 papers in both neuroscientific and psychoanalytic journals, and five books, including The Neuropsychology of Dreams (1997), Clinical Studies in Neuropsychoanalysis (2000) and The Brain and the Inner World (2002). His last book was a bestseller and was translated into nine languages. He is the editor of the Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (24 vols) and the forthcoming Complete Neuroscientific Works of Sigmund Freud (4 vols).

Jane S. Hall, LCSW, FIPA, Past President of the Contemporary Freudian Society, Board of International Psychoanalytic Association, member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and AAPCSW. Training and supervising analyst who teaches, lectures, and consults around the world on how to deepen psychoanalytic work and other topics for the past thirty years. Hall is the author of Roadblocks on the Journey of Psychotherapy (2004), Deepening the Treatment (1998), and various articles, and is on faculties of three New York institutes. Hall is in private practice in New York City.

 

Educational Objectives:

Upon completion of Session I, participants will be able to:

1. List several modern neuroscientific correlations to conceptions of at least three of the following: ‘drives’,’ ‘instincts,’ ‘id,’ ‘ego,’ ‘repression,’ or ‘dynamic unconscious’ in the human mind.