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After the last annual Neuropsychoanalysis conference in Vienna, it seemed apparent to some of us that there is great scope for establishing a network of young researchers and clinicians interested in the field. Ad hoc contacts during the conference and emerging stimulating discussions called for a more sustainable form of joint work and exchange. The following questions, typically expressed by young researchers and clinicians, were the main instigators behind our initiative:
How can I train in neuropsychoanalysis?
Which findings are relevant to my clinical practice or training?
How can I get a supervisor for my interdisciplinary research project?
Where is the right pub after the end of the conference?
Discussing similar questions has motivated us to create the “The Neuropsychoanalysis Junior Investigators Interest Group” (the JiiG), in London. The main aim of the forum is to facilitate the networking of young scientists and clinicians (and whoever else feels “young” in their neuropsychoanalysis interest) and to provide an arena for the exchange of ideas and information between experts and students interested in the field.
Three meetings have taken place thus far, freely oscillating between the features of a journal club (discussing previous research on “repression” and agreeing to set up a competition for the most intriguing proposal on “what would be the ultimate experiment to prove that repression exists or not”) and the very informal quality of just exchanging our different points of view. Through this “unstructured” and nonhierarchical character of our meetings, we hope to encourage junior investigators to increase their involvement with and capacity in conducting research that cuts across the various fields of interest—for example, psychology, neuroscience, psychoanalysis, and psychotherapy. The meetings' future aims and activities will include:
developing a forum for junior members of the field to meet and exchange perspectives