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We are happy to share the first group reports of 2014! This is the year we return to New York City, for our 15th annual congress, this time on “Current Neuropsychoanalytic Research.” Given that so many of our regional groups are involved with exciting interdisciplinary research, some of which is reported here, we hope to see you personally at the event!
Maria Sonia Goergen
The founding members of the group had a productive year and attended several congresses to present their research work; the most important was the 14th Neuropsychoanalysis Congress held in Cape Town, where Jesús Baca Plasencia presented a poster entitled “The ego genesis: a neuropsychoanalytical study.” He combined the Freudian and the neurobiological perspective about the early development of the ego and proposed several correlations between the Freudian theory and two neurobiological approaches in which he considered the epistemological implications of the task and established a coherent epistemic foundation for the correlations. Two main early developmental processes of the Freudian theory were addressed: the autoerotic and the narcissistic phases. The neurobiological perspective is based on the work of Antonio Damasio and Mark Solms, specifically the development of the self related to the various types of consciousness proposed by Damasio, and several concepts regarding the id and the ego recently published by Mark Solms.
María Isabel Rodríguez Luna presented “Clinical applications of neuropsychoanalysis: a case study of an adolescent patient” during the research sessions. She discussed the integrative teamwork necessary to help an anorexic patient with epilepsy, focusing mainly on the clinical application of a neuropsychoanalytical treatment that entails the integral vision of physicians and the psychodynamic psychotherapist. The treatment aims to help the progress of the patient's mind-body interaction and takes into acco