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It is mid-August as I write. However, despite our members' well-deserved respite, we continue to address and concern ourselves with the issues pertaining to the Neuropsychoanalytic Clinical Study Center of NPAP's mission: treating patients with focal brain lesions. Our Director, Dr. Edith Laufer, is ever on the alert for relevant research articles and distributes them as email attachments for summer reading—clearly not summer recreational reading; rather, preparation for what is soon to come.
In the fall, our members will continue our monthly clinical presentations of progress reports given by the Center's therapists who are treating patients with focal brain lesions. We are fortunate to have the ongoing incisive, generous tutelage of Dr. Mark Solms, as well as the thoughtful contributions of our psychiatric and neurological consultants, Drs. Anna Chapman and Walter Nieves.
In connection with our “Speakers Series,” Harvey Alter, founder and president of the International Aphasia movement, who now manages a number of aphasia groups, reported to us about his personal experience with aphasia, speech therapy, and ultimately music therapy. It was the music that helped him recover his ability to communicate via speech, and it is music therapy that is the major focus of the patients and therapists in his aphasia groups. His was a gripping presentation.
Additionally, we are making plans for a mini-course, possibly as part of NPAP's Continuing Education program, and we are also entertaining the idea of sponsoring an event open to members of other psychoanalytic institutes.
Realizing that to remain effective we must maintain a flow of referrals, we are actively engaged in evolving a strategic plan for staying in touch with existing referral sources and establishing contact with additional agencies.
So we, the members of the Neuropsychoanalytic Clinical Study Center of NPAP, anticipate another lively, productive, academic year.
Charlotte Kahn