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In 2011, Istanbul continued to host interdisciplinary conferences, conduct research, and promote publications on psychoanalysis and neurosciences. Here is a summary of news from our city:
The interest in neuropsychoanalysis is increasing among psychiatrists in Istanbul and gradually becoming more fruitful. This year psychiatrist Saffet Murat Tura, from Imago Psychotherapy Center, published his new book Matter and Meaning: Origins of Rationality, which is based on a neuropsychoanalytic perspective. In his book, he explores the solutions offered by the modern philosophy
of mind for brain/meaning and brain/consciousness problems. He develops a dialectical materialist “Meaning Theory” to explain how meaning can be described as a material property and how sociolinguistic meanings may have natural foundations (Tura, 2011). In another vein, Dr. Cagri Yüksel gave two talks on the history and the future of neuropsychoanalysis as a new discipline to his colleagues at the psychiatry and neurology departments of the Istanbul Medical School, where he is continuing his psychiatry training as a resident. The constructive comments from the staff were highly inspiring for future neuropsychoanalytic studies to be held at the Medical School.
The affective neuroscience research carried out by clinical psychologists Gökçe Özkarar, Hanna Nita Scherler, Falih Köksal, and Hatice Çetinkaya was accepted by both the Twelfth International Neuropsychoanalysis Congress held in Berlin and the Twelfth European Psychology Congress held in Istanbul. The results of the Turkish standardization of the Affective Neuroscience Personality Scale were compared with the American norms (Davis, Panksepp, & Normansell, 2003), leading to shared findings regardless of culture, as well as varying findings depending on cultural differences. For instance, gender differences on basic affective systems were exactly the same in both the Turkish and the American samples, in which females had higher scores on “sadness, c