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The “Neuropsychoanalytic Study Group Frankfurt-Cologne” began working after a long period of preparation in October 1998. Over the past six years, three members (Dr. Kennel, Dr. Leuzinger-Bohleber, Dr. Röckerath) have participated in an interdisciplinary workshop between psychoanalysts and neuroscientists (supported by the Köhler Foundation, Darmstadt) on memory and have just published a two-volume book: , , and , Eds. (1998). Erinnerung von Wirklichkeiten. Psychoanalyse and Neurowissenschaften im Dialog. (Vol. 1: Bestandsaufnahme; Vol 2: Folgerungen ftir die psychoanalytische Praxis). Stuttgart: Verlag Internationale Psychoanalyse. Also, the other members of the group have been working in this field for years, giving lectures at the Frankfurt Psychoanalytic Institute (Drs. Kennel, Schultz, Leuzinger-Bohleber) and at the Institute for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Koeln University (Drs. Huber and Röckerath).
After this theoretical orientation the study group has now started with a more clinically oriented project and met twice since then. The group consists of six psychoanalysts, five of whom are psychiatrists-neurologists, and one a psychologist. In its work, the group intends to concentrate on a psychoanalytic approach to patients suffering from circumscribed lesions in the area supplied by the middle cerebral artery of the right hemisphere. The lesion should not exceed more than a quarter of that area. Preferably, the patients should be relatively young and show neglect as a major symptom. The group will try to assess the patient from the acute phase on, considering visiting them in the hospital, in order to gain a fully documented case. Psychoanalytic treatment should be of reasonable duration (at least more than a year) and high frequency. Contacts to local hospitals with neurological wards will be established to find suitable patients, and to make sure the neurological data are accessible. It is the group's c