Monthly files: September 2015

International psychoanalytical congress

International psychoanalytical congress

Every two years the International Psychoanalytical Association has a congress in one of its three regions: Europe, North America and South America.
 
The theme of the last Congress, celebrated in July, 2015, in Boston, was Psychoanalysis in a Changing World.
 
Psychoanalysts from all over the globe attend these Congresses as the IPA represents over 12,000 members from more than 50 component societies.
 
One of these members wrote a compelling article about her experience at the Congress and the what she found there: a focus on empirical research and science, openness to technology, a gender-balanced attendance, a vibrant and friendly atmosphere, and a recognition for the need to evolve with the world we live in.
 
Many psychoanalysts in Madrid would agree with her thoughts.
 
Read the article.

(0) 30/09/2015 14:45h International Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalyst in Madrid

Reviewing contemporary neuropsychoanalysis

Reviewing contemporary neuropsychoanalysis

In a recent article in the Los Angeles Times, Joshua Kendall reviews Casey Shwartz’s book: In the Mind Fields: Exploring the New Science of Neuropsychoanalysis.
 
In The Mind Fields deals head-on with contemporary debates between neuroscience and psychoanalysis that sometimes tend to polarize to extreme positions.
 
Sometimes psychoanalysis seems to ignore the functioning of the brain to such an extent that it risks becoming brainless, and neuroscience tends to forget so entirely the subjective experience of the individual so as to become mindless.
 
Shwartz profiles Mark Solms, the founder of neuropychoanalysis, and describes how he resolves this false polarization, namely by stressing the fact that anything that goes on in the mind goes on in the brain too, and vice-versa.
 
She also touches on the lively debate between Hobson and Solms over the role dreams play, and to what extent an excess of emphasis on data gathered by highly sophisticated technology might forget the actual experience of the individual.
 
Read the article.

(0) 21/09/2015 12:21h International Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalyst in Madrid