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This second edition of 2018 follows the 19th Annual Congress of the Society; there is a remarkable feeling we are getting stronger within our relationships, deepened by our losses and nourished by our gains. Jaak Panksepp “runs in the neuropsychoanalytical family!”
It is also a pleasure to see how reliably some of the regional groups are sending in their reports, and how good it is to have more groups on their way.
Although we sadly witness that the world is regressing to a paranoid-schizoid position, with increasing splitting within and among countries, we kept building scientific bridges in 2018:
We launched our new website and we enriched two special links that we dedicated to our beloved supervisor Prof. Jaak Panksepp. The first link is related to our “Circle of Affective Neuroscience”, which continues supervising the master theses of graduate students that work with Affective Neuroscience Personality Scale since 2011. The second is related to our “Initiation of Cross-cultural Affective Neuroscience”, which we had announced in Neuropsychoanalysis in 2012, with the approval of Prof. Panksepp, that started the new research field in which we carry out cross-cultural affective neuroscience projects. The publications and proceedings of these two research portals will be available on our website.
Prof. Güler Fişek from the Turkish Neuropsychoanalysis Study Group published her new book titled: Self in Relation: Culture, Family, Individuation and Psychoanalytical Searches. The chapter “Psychoanalysis and Self” also included a discussion of “The Unification of Neurobiological Approaches with Psychoanalysis: Neuropsychoanalysis”. The book also argued that the separation-individuation focused psychotherapeutic goals does not appear to be suitable for non-Western cultures, where inter-relatedness are highly valued. How psychotherapy techniques may/must be modified- according to the cultures in which they a