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The Núcleo Tavola Center was founded in 2000 to bring together professionals from various fields in the humanities and psychological sciences, with the aim of promoting interdisciplinary dialog through events, courses, and study groups that take psychoanalysis as the central domain of knowledge. Psychoanalysis has expanded into a multidisciplinary field encompassing biology, psychology, arts, and medicine, requiring that professionals have proper and specific training and, at the same time, remain pluralistic. We do not believe that psychoanalysis is an exclusive practice of doctors and psychologists; on the contrary, we aim to expand the penetration of psychoanalysis in society, constituting an area of permanent development of new forms of psychoanalysis in theory and practice. As Núcleo Tavola has grown considerably in the past ten years, it has been necessary to create departments so that groups of experts could more actively participate in the production and dissemination of knowledge.
The Núcleo Tavola Department of Neuroscience (nucleotavola.com.br) was created in early 2011 with the objective of promoting the interaction between neuroscience and other human sciences and of promoting science to the general population. Specifically, the department organizes courses, study groups, lectures, and other activities on the neurosciences and their interfaces with other areas (including education, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and the arts).
Luis Henrique Novaes Milan (psychoanalyst, psychologist, and founder of the Núcleo Tavola) invited Luis Fernando Scozzafave de Souza-Pinto (a psychoanalyst and recently graduated neuroscientist) to set up the group. Souza-Pinto invited fellow neuroscientists to weekly meetings around the theoretical study of “Neuropsychoanalysis” and to organize a regional meeting called “Conferences in Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis,” which will be held on 28 and 29 October 2011. The conference will be open to all—both in Brazil and inte