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The Neuropsychoanalysis Group of Mexico City started activity just after the Berlin Congress, where the three current members presented developments in their research projects. The group intends to focus on integrating psychoanalytic methods into empirical studies, hoping to attract colleagues as more work is organized and published.
In terms of our active members, Maria Isabel Rodriguez Luna is a psychologist with a Master of Arts in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy who has been studying clinical applications of neuropsychoanalysis. At the Tenth Neuropsychoanalysis Congress, she presented a model that includes neurofeedback entitled “The Psychotherapy of Play and Neurofeedback—the Relational Model: The Parent-Child Relationship.” Developing this interdisciplinary model, which integrates psychiatric and psychoanalytic approaches, she presented preliminary findings in a poster at the recent Neuropsychoanalysis Congress in Berlin, exploring the mind-body relation.
Jesùs Baca Plasencia is also a Mexican psychologist; he has trained as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and has worked in the field for six years. Currently finishing his doctoral dissertation at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, he is working with a multidisciplinary focus that integrates philosophical, psychoanalytic, and neurobiological approaches to the problem of the mind-body relation. His work focuses on the genesis of the ego, evaluating the Freudian theory that asserts an evolutionarily derived set of mechanisms whereby the ego arises from the body, including a role for psychic energy in this new creation. This project attempts to take into account the most recent neurobiological findings about the formation of subjective structure that provide the human organism with a sense of self-integration and individuality. At the Berlin Congress, he presented a poster with Prof. Rosario Garcia Cordovilla from the Biological Sciences faculty of Universidad Complutense de Madrid about his ongoing research.
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