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With our 15th annual congress, we witnessed the full flowering of neuropsychoanalytic research. It began at the 2002 congress in Stockholm, with a postcongress research day that featured just eight presentations. Following that meeting, the Research Day became a regular feature, where colleagues from around the world presented clinical work with patients; explorations of the brain mechanisms of psychodynamic processes, with fMRI and other methods; pharmacological studies of affective processes in humans and other animals; and more. Many of us felt that the Research Day was one of the most exciting parts of our meetings, where the languages of both neuroscience and psychoanalysis could be spoken in the same talk.
In the past several years, neuropsychoanalytic research has featured ever more prominently, with research sessions being integrated into the congress proper since our congress in Seattle in 2010; our last separate postcongress Research Day was in Paris in 2009. In this most recent congress, neuropsychoanalytic research finally took center stage, with 44 talks given by colleagues from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America making up the main body of the conference. The breadth of topics, all of relevance to psychoanalytic models of the mind and to psychodynamic treatment, can be glimpsed by pursuing the abstracts below. Stay tuned for future publications in these pages and elsewhere from these productive and creative researchers and clinicians, who are thinking carefully about the intersection of the subjective and objective, taking on the challenges of operationalizing complex psychoanalytic concepts, and advancing our work on all fronts.
Maggie Zellner
Anna-Christine Schmidta, Henrik Kesslerb, Daniela Scharfa, Oliver Hildenbranda, Aram Kehyayana, Jo-Birger Schmeinga, Katrin Besta and