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The Anna Freud Centre formally initiated a Neuro-Psychoanalysis Project in September 1999. This project has four components: (1) clinical, (2) research, (3) internal teaching, and (4) external lectures, workshops, and conferences.
The clinical component revolves around a neuropsychoanalytical assessment service for patients with difficulties that are simultaneously “neurological” and “psychological.” For example, we counsel parents of children with neurological disorders about the psychological aspects and implications of their diagnoses, and we advise local social services authorities and family courts on the emotional and developmental needs of children whose parents have neuropsychological disabilities.
We are initiating a wide variety of research projects, ranging from experimental work on the brain mechanisms underlying mental functions of interest to child psychotherapists and psychoanalysts (e.g., mother-infant cradling behavior, sleep, and dreaming), through clinical research (e.g., a project on the psychology of epilepsy), to scholarly research (e.g., the editing and translation of the Complete Neuroscientific Works of Sigmund Freud).
Our internal teaching program is currently limited to the provision of a few neuropsychoanalytic courses within the existing M.Sc. and Psy.D. degree programs (e.g., a course on the neuropsychology of early mental development, and one on the brain mechanisms of emotion). These degrees are awarded by University College, London. We are also supervising a number of neuropsychoanalytic research dissertations within these programs. We are working toward the longer term goal of establishing a new, specialist diploma or degree in neuropsychoanalysis.
Our external program includes a series of “psychoanalytically friendly” introductory lectures and workshops focusing on neuroscience topics of interest to child psychotherapists and psychoanalysts (e.g., neurogenetics and developmental neuropsychology). We are also planning a series of worksh