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In July 2000, the first Neuro-Psychoanalysis Conference on Emotion left us with the feeling that a new era was beginning. Freud's neurological work was finally reintegrated to his psychoanalytic theory. Finally we had the neuroimaging technology to continue the work that Freud had begun. The dreams of the participants seemed to have come true …
During the second conference, on Memory, in April 2001, the underpinnings of the International Neuro-Psychoanalysis Society where still under construction. The hippocampus was still consuming information in order to build the foundation of long-term memory. The lectures were more specific and less introductory. We confronted the bonding of brain, mind and body—the cognitiveemotional dialogue.
The third meeting was held in Stockholm in September 2002. The title of this conference was “Neuroscientific and Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Sexuality and Gender”. At the Annual General Meeting of the International NeuroPsychoanalysis Society we discussed the ways in which the Society needed to be carried forth. Faces were no longer strangers. Memory could be brought to consciousness—the hippocampus was maturing! From the very beginning, Mark Solms was the grand master, Paula Barkay was the link between all of us, and Irene Matthis and the members of her excellent Organizing Committee were those who made it happen. We felt we belonged.
This year, as we go to New York for the 4th Congress on “The Unconscious in Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis” (July 25-28, 2003) we will have a body in which interdisciplinary ideas can be discussed constructively. The memory retrieval will occur and new associative neural pathways will be created.
The Stockholm congress was opened by the Co-Chair of the Society, Mark Solms. He also substituted for Jacob Arlow (who was unable to attend) on psychoanalytic drive theory. In the same session Larry Kunstadt spoke on the evolutionary biology of sex. Donald Pfaff then gave a presentation on neural, hormon