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As we enter our ninth year, the Neuropsychoanalytic Clinical Study Group of NPAP continues to meet monthly to explore challenging issues. We are deeply grateful to Mark Solms, our educational consultant, Anna Chapman, our psychiatric consultant, Walter Nieves, our neurological consultant, and Edith Laufer, our director.
We invite other clinically interested groups to join us in starting a conversation. Clinicians in our Study Group would very much welcome an active interchange with other clinicians in order to share our work, broaden our knowledge, and find connections with others working from a different perspective.
Our clinical focus has been on treating patients with focal brain lesions due to stroke, traumatic brain injury, epilepsy, and some forms of closed head injuries. As we work with these patients in a psychoanalytically informed way, we can observe psychodynamics that are related to transference and countertransference, resistance, loss, and self and identity issues. We hope to write about these dynamics in the future.
Several of our members have completed a certification course that is offered by BIANYS (Brain Injury Association of New York State). This certification will help us in our work with patients with focal brain injuries, a complex and typically underserved population.
Our Center introduced a new speakers' series that seeks to build a bridge to and from the psychoanalytic and basic research communities. Our first speaker, Nobel Prize winner Dr. Eric Kandel, discussed his film and book, In Search of Memory, and challenged our members to embrace an empirical understanding of psychoanalysis.
We believe that this challenge can be met not only by supporting research on treatment efficacy but, even more importantly, through a strong and ongoing dialog between clinical work and academic research.
In an initiative to further this collaboration, Dr. Adrian Raine gave a presentation at NPAP to inform the ps