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During 2003 our group read and discussed some papers from the journal Neuro-Psychoanalysis. This year, 2004, our activities will be directed mainly to a postgraduate course on “Mind and Brain: A Neuro-Scien-tific Perspective,” which will be given at the Mental Health Department of the School of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires. The course will be running over a period of eight months, from April to November 2004, and is open to both physicians and psychologists. It will be held at the headquarters of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Society.
In the planning of this course, we have taken into account our previous experiences of a course on neuroscience for mental health professionals. In that first course, we presented mainly the biological fundamen-tals—for example, the molecular biology of the central nervous system (CNS). The course turned out to be a failure, because what the professionals of this kind needed was not to get special knowledge about the molecular biology or structural anatomy of the CNS, but, rather, insights into the functions, from a conceptual and an evolutionary perspective, of the CNS. The new course will therefore include more of the functions of the emotional and cognitive systems of the mind/brain. In future