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10th May 2025 Lecture
Clinical implications of recent advances in Neuropsychoanalysis - Mark Solms
To be held online from 10.00am to 12.00noon on Saturday 10th May 2025, by Zoom. Attendance is free of charge for all FPC members and will count as 2 hours CPD. The lecture will not be recorded. To book a place please email admin@thefpc.org.uk
In this presentation, Mark Solms will review recent neuroscientific research findings regarding emotional drives and memory, and their implications for our understanding of repression, defence, transference and working through. Some practical implications for psychoanalytic technique will also be discussed.
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 Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (24 volumes) and the forthcoming Complete Neuroscientific Works of Sigmund Freud (4 volumes).
General reading list at https://humanities.uct.ac.za/department-psychology/contacts/mark-solms