The group has continued meeting monthly, and during the year 2004 we have eagerly been studying Mark Solms's writings. In September we were delighted to take part in the Fifth International Congress of Neuro-Psychoanalysis in Rome, where we presented three posters: on confabulation (Madeleine Scop Medeiros), on Tourette's syndrome, and on pervasive developmental disorders (Maria Sonia Goergen et al.)

We have now also legally registered our group as the Southern Brazilian Chapter of the International Neuro-Psychoanalytic Society, which indicates that we are located in the most southern state of Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul, in its capital, Porto Alegre. During the first part of 2005, the group will be preparing for the next congress, which will be held in Rio de Janeiro in July 2005.