'Clinical Implications of Neuropsychoanalysis' with Professor Mark Solms

CPD open to anyone with an interest in psychotherapy. It will be of particular interest to therapists, psychotherapists, counsellors and mental health professionals.

Saturday 20th March 2021

2.30pm - 4.30pm

This will be an Online Event using Zoom. The Lecture will be recorded and be available after the event for all ticket holders.

In this lecture, Professor Mark Solms will briefly outline some theoretical innovations arising from neuropsychoanalytic research, and then discuss the implications for our understanding of the aims and mode of action of psychotherapy, with special emphasis on our understanding of repression, transference and working through.

About Professor Mark Solms

Professor Mark Solms is Director of Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital. He is a psychoanalyst trained at the institute of Psychoanalysis (London). He is the recipient of numerous prizes and honours. He has published 350 articles in neuroscientific and psychoanalytic journals and has authored eight books. The Brain and the Inner World (2002) was translated into 13 languages. His collected papers were published recently as The Feeling Brain (2018)

Mark is the 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).

Currently his main scientific focus is the brain mechanisms of consciousness and the implications of these mechanisms for the understanding and treatment of psychopathology.

CPD certificates will be provided by email after the event.