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Several society meetings have been devoted to papers on neuroscience.
The L.A. Child Development Center, an analytic child psycotherapy program, held a conference on development and neuroscience.
Speakers included Allan N. Schore, Regina Pally, and Daniel Siegel.
Solms visited New England in 1997 and presented his pioneering work on analysis of brain-injured patients. Allan N. Schore was invited this year to discuss “Early Trauma and the Development of the Right Brain: The Implications of Neurobiology for Understanding and Treating the Consequences of Early Psychic Trauma.”
The New York Psychoanalytic Institute has over the past few years taken various important initiatives in relation to this new interdisciplinary area. In 1990 a Psychoanalysis-Neuroscience Study Group was convened under the chairmanship of Arnold Pfeffer in collaboration with Edward Nersessian. The aim of this group was to study the implications for psychoanalysis of new findings regarding the physical correlates of mind emerging from the neuroscientific field. To begin with, over a period of two years, the study group acquainted itself with the current status of the field through a series of 20 presentations by eminent basic neuroscientists (e.g., Michael Gazzaniga, Joseph LeDoux, Terry Deacon, and George Ojemann). These distinguished colleagues were invited by James Schwartz (of Columbia University Medical Center), who had kindly agreed to act as Visiting Scholar to the group. Next, in 1992 and 1993, the group held a series of 10 further meetings led by outstanding cognitive neuroscientists (e.g., Andrew Kertesz, Daniel Schacter, Karl Pribram). These meetings were convened by Jason Brown (of New York University Medical Center), who had succeeded James Schwartz as Visiting Scholar to the group. Having prepared itself in this way to tackle dir