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A lot of work has been done in the last year, including a visit from Professor Mark Solms, which was very productive, interesting, and inspiring. Following the visit, we decided to start working on case presentations with open discussions and to develop research work. As the interest areas of our group members are quite varied, we defined, according to the members' suggestions, four core issues, and our group divided accordingly into four working teams, each devoted to one of the core issues and responsible in preparing and presenting the topic before the rest of our group. Each group tries to build a neuro-psychoanalytic dictionary of the basic terms and prepare case presentations in writing.
Here is a description of the four teams:
The Memory team: The head of the team is Aviva Edel-man, a neuropsychologist.
The team presented its work during the autumn and winter meetings of 2005. The introduction included a dictionary of basic terms—with a presentation of the film Memento—and a discussion of the differential diagnosis of the kind of memory impairment from which the main character of the movie suffers.
We presented a few cases concerning the following:
Early implicit memories and their expression in late trauma, as observed in a patient suffering from extreme somatization following spinal-cord injury (Van Der Kolk, 1994). This case demonstrated how memories unrecoverable by verbal means could unfold through the appropriate conditions.
Splitting mechanisms in the retrieval of a traumatic event having occurred prior to MTBI (mild traumatic brain injury). We used a case study using the EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) technique. The head injury had reactivated an earlier psychic trauma, and later it seemed that this person had dreams indicating that he remembered part of his head injury—a part that was thought of as forgotten and consciously gone.
False memories as opposed to true memories and evidence suggesting differential registration in the br