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Our group continued to unite polarities this year, trying to build bridges not only between psychoanalysts and neuroscientists, but also between specialists from different schools of psychotherapy. We aimed to form a “common language” among specialists from various disciplines and neuropsychoanalysis. Here are some of our activities:
In January 2008, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Saffet Murat Tura gave a seminar on neuropsychoanalysis entitled “The Psychodynamics of the Brain” to the staff of the Bakirkoy Psychiatry Hospital. It was the first seminar on neuropsychoanalysis given at one of the major psychiatry hospitals of Istanbul, which has provided mental health services since 1927 (bakirkoyruhsinir.gov.tr).
Prof. Güler Fişek, from the clinical psychology department of Boǧaziçi University, has written a chapter entitled “Self Development, Individuation, and Culture: A Psychoanalytic Search” in the book Perspectives in Human Development, Family, and Culture, which is to be published by Cambridge University Press. The chapter discusses neuropsychoanalytic perspectives regarding self development and individuation.
In September 2008, Scherler, Köksal, Oǧuz, and Özkarar gave a panel on “The Universal Mind and Awareness” at the 16th National Psychology Congress, held at the University of Istanbul. They evaluated the theory of universal mind within the gestalt, evolutionary, quantum physics, and neuropsychoanalytic perspectives, successively. Although using different terminologies, they agreed on certain shared concepts, particularly on the reciprocal interaction of the human mind and the universal mind. It was also emphasized that while C. G. Jung explains this phenomenon via the interaction of the human mind and the universal mind (“Gaia”), the famous Sufist Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi explains the same phenomenon via the reciprocal interaction of the human mind—which Sufis consider as the “microcosmos”—and the universal mind-which Sufis consider as the “macrocosmos.” Fr