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The 17th International Neuropsychoanalysis Congress, Chicago, July 7–10, 2016: “Other Minds”
Have you yet to attend a congress of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society? You can get a flavor for the diverse and cutting-edge research being presented at our meetings by reading the abstracts of the symposia and research sessions below.
Presenters from almost every continent discussed a range of topics, including affective neuroscience, affective touch, anosognosia, consciousness, resilience, splitting, subliminal processes, and much more.
Single-case presentations linked everyday clinical processes to neurobiological models, or drew psychodynamic insights from the consequences of brain injury. Comparative clinic-anatomical work, looking at larger groups of subjects, enriched single-case reports. And a variety of experimental methods were represented, including EEG, fMRI, and pharmacological interventions.
We encourage you to consider submitting proposals for our next congress in London, in July 2017; stay tuned for details!
Friday, July 8
Katerina Fotopoulou, Chair
This symposium focuses on how interpersonal, affective touch shapes our sense of self as an embodied and social being. In a series of talks and brief data presentations, we will present empirical findings highlighting how affective, affiliative signals shape the emotional, core of selfhood and set the boundaries of the self. The empirical talks will focus particularly on affective touch as a neurophysiologically specialized domain of interoception (the so-called CT afferent system) as a paradigmatic example of proximal intersubjectivity. We will more specifically consider its role in (a) experimental illusions and clinical disorders of body awareness, body spatiality and body image such as asomatognosia and anorexia nervosa (total N = 70); (b) in the perception of physical and psychological pleasure and pain in healt