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It makes us happy to see how the number of specialists interested in neuropsychoanalysis in Turkey is increasing year by year, as well as the interdisciplinary brainstorming and empirical research. To enhance our interdisciplinary family the following activities were carried out:
To introduce neuropsychoanalysis, not only in Istanbul but all around Turkey, the article entitled “Neuropsycho-analysis: A Call for Peace for Mind–Body Dualism,” by F. Gökçe Özkarar, was published in the Turkish Psychological Bulletin (Özkarar, 2007). In addition, the website npsa-istanbul.com was initiated and an e-mail group was created to facilitate the exchange of information throughout the country.
Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Saffet Murat Tura published his book Hysterical Consciousness , in which he investigates the problem of brain and phenomenal consciousness, making use of psychiatric, psychoanalytic, neurological, and neuropsychoanalytic perspectives. Beside considering the controversies between materialism and epi-phenomenalism, Tura argues that materialism can go along with epiphenomenalism, if the problem is viewed with the help of epistemological discussions and the principles of quantum physics.
Güler Fişek, Ph.D., from the psychology department of Böaziçi University, presented her paper entitled: “Relational, Interrelational Relatedness: Which One Is My Experience in a Therapeutic Discourse of Virtual Kinship?” , at the Annual Conference of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, in Athens, Greece. Mentioning the neuropsychoanalytic viewpoints on transference and countertransference, and pointing to the works of Beebe and Lachmann (2002) and Fonagy, Gergely, Jurist, & Target (2002), she emphasized the links between mother's mirroring of the infant's affective experience and the therapist's mirroring of the patient's affective experience.
In December 2007, within the organization of the Nisan
Psychotherapy Center, counseling psycho