Exploring ideas on “Repression and Defense” raised at the 19th Annual Congress of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society

The Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis

Exploring ideas on “Repression and Defense” raised at the 19th Annual Congress of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society

Saturday, October 6, 2018

10:00 am

If you were at the Congress, you know how exciting and provocative the talks were.  Leading researchers and thinkers on memory, inhibition, and repression – including Cristina Alberini, Michael Anderson, and Nikolai Axmacher – presented a range of evidence and models of brain/mind function that relate to repression.  Is the process conscious or unconscious, voluntary or involuntary?  Is repression the same or different from suppression?  Does repression lead to the reduction, or the persistence, of traumatic memory?  What kinds of memory is involved – episodic, procedural, emotional?  And how are various brain mechanisms involved, including inhibition of hippocampal activity, or increased alpha frequency?

If you couldn’t make it to Mexico City, you are still very welcome to participate in this discussion.

Refresh your memory about the talks, or listen to them for the first time, and then come chew on these complicated but deeply meaningful questions together.

No CME/CE credits will be offered.