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Our group is now a society. This was the best way we found of encouraging more professionals to get engaged in what has been studied around the world related to neuro-psychoanalysis. Professionals and students of brain-mind science can take part in group studies or receive news about the progress in neuropsychoanalysis. The society will also organize meetings. We are looking forward with enthusiasm to our first meeting, which will take place on 29-30 September 2003, with Mark Solms as invited speaker.
During the half-year preceding the September meeting some of the founding members of the SSBNP will prepare the community on mental health in Brazil by giving seminars on Solms's work.
For more than a year, several members of the SSBNP (Karla Nyland, Cleon Cerezer, Andre Goettens Bastos, Angela Piva, Beatriz Zimerman, Claudia Albuquerque Ramos, Elizabeth M. da Silva Vieira, and Maria Sonia Goergen) have been working together on a research project on neurological patients, where several perspectives have been applied: psychoanalytic treatment, speech therapy, neurological follow up, and pharmacological treatment.
During the first two months not only did some patients desert the study, but also some psychotherapists. It took some time for the therapists to understand and accept that this was an interdisciplinary work and that all aspects were important, the main objective being to help the patients to improve functions lost or not yet achieved.
A special characteristic of this group is that all the patients are children. Here are some short notes from the patients’ material:
“Fernando” was a healthy 10-year-old boy when he suffered a severe head injury in a car accident. He also lost his father and other close relatives in the accident. He was in a coma for months and after regaining consciousness was found to have a left hemiplegia. He had bad control of his social behavior and language, being crude and impolite as well as manifesting slurred speech. He is improving well, bu