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In 2010, several activities were carried out by members of the Vienna Neuro-Psychoanalysis Study Group.
In spring 2010, a national joint meeting was held at the Vienna Psychoanalytic Academy by members of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association, and the Institute of Computer Technology, Technical University Vienna. The workshop focused on Freud's structural model of the mental apparatus and its application in computer technology, representing a follow-up meeting of an international symposium held in 2007 in Vienna (ENF 2007, “Emulating the Mind”), then coorganized by the Technical University Vienna (Institute of Computer Technology) and the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society. The organizers of the workshop mentioned above also applied for funding of an international so-called exploratory workshop by the European Science Foundation, to be held in 2011.
Earlier this year, a member of the study group, Gerald Wiest, attended the Research Training Program of the International Psychoanalytical Association at Yale University, organized by Linda Mayes and Peter Fonagy, and presented a prospective research project on the assessment of affective states in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. Another IPA-supported study, entitled “Emotional Experience during Transient Hemispheric Inactivation: Neuropsychoanalytic Investigations using the Wada-Test,” is still ongoing. The study investigates unilateral processing of affects in patients undergoing presurgical evaluation for epilepsy surgery.
Two neuropsychoanalytic papers have been published by members of the Viennese Study Group in 2010. The first paper, published in Psyche, deals with the empirical dimension of primary-process mentation (Wiest, 2010). The second paper, published in Neuropsychoanalysis, reports on the neuropsychoanalytic findings in a patient with bilateral lesions of the amygdala (Wiest & Brainin, 2010). In addition, Gerald Wiest published a neuropsychoanalytic book in late