Mark Solms, Ph.D.
With discussant, Jose Saporta, M.D.
Recent neuroscientific findings in affective and cognitive neuroscience demand revisions to the psychoanalytic theory of the drives and of the unconscious respectively. This presentation will outline these revisions and discuss their clinical implications for the practice of psychoanalytic therapy.
Please note: The Zoom link will be emailed the day before the event. Register by Thursday 11/2 at 6pm.
Learning Objectives
At the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:
1. Identify and describe the emotional drives of the human brain
2. Classify the different memory systems of the human brain and identify their behavioral manifestations
3. Adjust their clinical practice to make it commensurate with recent neuroscientific findings.
Bio
Professor Mark Solms is a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society and the American and South African Psychoanalytic Associations. He is Director of Neuropsychology at the Neuroscience Institute of the University of Cape Town. He is an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists. He has received numerous honours and awards, including the Sigourney Prize. He has published 350 scientific papers, and eight books, the latest being The Hidden Spring (Norton, 2021). He is the authorized editor and translator of the forthcoming Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (24 volumes) and Complete Neuroscientific Works of Sigmund Freud (4 volumes).
References
Lee, T. & Solms, M. (2023). Managing the clinical encounter with patients diagnosed with personality disorder in a general psychiatry setting: key contributions from neuropsychoanalysis. British Journal of Psychiatry Advances, doi: 10.1192/bja.2023.43
Solms, M. (2022). Revision of Freud’s theory of the biological origin of the Oedipus complex. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 90: 555-581. doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2021.1984153
Solms, M. (2021). Revision of drive theory. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 69, 1033-1091. DOI: 10.1177/00030651211057041
Solms, M. (2018). The Neurobiological Underpinnings of Psychoanalytic Theory and Therapy. Frontiers of Behavioral Neuroscience, 12, 294. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00294
Smith, R. & Solms, M. (2018). Examination of the hypothesis that repression is premature automatization: a psychoanalytic case report and discussion. Neuropsychoanalysis, 20: 47-61. https://doi.org/10.1080/15294145.2018.1473045