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The Vienna Study Group started in March 1998. We meet every six weeks and most of us are psychoanalysts. The group, however, also includes a neuroscientist, who has worked for many years in neuropsychology; and a neurologist, who is currently in psychoanalytic training. We now have eight people in the group.
We started our study group by discussing Mark Solms's work and his hypotheses about the connections between Freudian metapsychology and cerebral organic findings. Next we discussed psy choanalytic concepts relevant to neuroscientific aspects, on a theoretical and a clinical level. Our group includes some child psychoanalysts and therefore we are also interested in developmental questions. We have also discussed, from a psychoanalytic point of view, neuropsychological questions on a theoretical basis: consciousness, the phenomena of “nonconsciousness,” and the unconscious.
We were happy to have Professor Georg Goldenberg visit our group twice: He lectured on memory. Mark Solms was in Vienna and gave us a lecture on “The deep psychological functions of the right cerebral hemisphere.” We discussed with him a theme that has been central to our discussion for the whole year: the manifold ways in which Solms' approach could be relevant for psychoanalysis.
For the next year we decided on a threefold discussion of clinical phenomena: psychoanalytic, neuroscientific and psychopharmacological perspectives on patients with focal lesions.