Research and Symposium Abstracts from the Congress of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society, 2022

Psychoanalysis, an M.Sc. in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, and a B.Sc. Psychology degree, all from Universidad Intercontinental, Mexico. She is a researcher and lecturer in psychoanalysis and psychology at that same university. She has a clinical practice focused on borderline states, addiction, depression, psychosomatic illness and eating disorders amongst others. She has been a liaison officer in Latin America for the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society since 2014. She is also managing editor of the journal Neuropsychoanalysis.

A licensed clinical psychologist working as a postdoctoral trainee at Ponce Health Sciences University, Ponce, Puerto Rico. Dr. Peña-Vargas is also part of The Research Centers in Minority Institutions program where she is working as an assistant researcher in the project Biopsychosocial Predictors of Tumor Associated-Inflammation and Progression under the mentorship of Dr. Eida Castro and Dr. Guillermo Armaiz. She is also part of the Puerto Rico Neuropsychoanalysis Research/Study regional group.

Adult and child and adolescent psychiatrist and a psychoanalyst. He teaches and supervises in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Chicago, and teaches at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. He has a private practice in Wilmette and Chicago, Illinois. His interests include neuroscience and psychoanalysis, early development, personality structure and disorders, and play.

Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at The University of Chicago. He is the section chief and has been the director of training of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry since 2009. Dr. Radwan specializes in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and neurodevelopmental disorders. He serves as a consultant psychiatrist in global mental health organizations including the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Dr. Radwan is board certified in adult psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry and hospice and palliative medicine. Among Dr. Radwan’s research interests are play, heart rate variability in psychiatric/psychological functioning, neuropsychoanalysis, and increasing public awareness of childhood mental health.

Born and raised in part in New York City, and later in Livingston, New Jersey. He received his B.A. in Psychology (magna cum laude) and M.D. degrees from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Baron went on to complete his psychiatry residency at Tufts/New England Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Baron is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Rosalind Franklin University/The Chicago Medical School. In that role, he supervised psychiatric residents in their community psychiatry rotation for 15 years. During that time he also served as Administrative Psychiatrist, and Interim Director of Mental Health Services, for the DuPage County Health Department, supervising 50 psychiatrists and over 200 other clinical staff. Dr. Baron's clinical and administrative experience and practice since completing his training in 1989 has been within a developmental neurobiological understanding of mental illness. Over the course of his career, he has worked to understand mind and brain as different languages for the same essential human experience, including the complexity of neuroscience, the evolutionary basis of the human brain and behavior, and the deeply personal subjective experience of every individual. Dr. Baron is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He served on the Ethics Committee of the Illinois Psychiatric Society as amember from 2001 to 2006, and as chairman from 2006 to 2011.

Graduate of the University of California at Santa Cruz where he earned a BA in Psychology. He proceeded to earn both a Master’s and then Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Michigan in 1984. His Post-doctoral Fellowship was at the University of Michigan Children’s Hospital where he launched an enduring interest in child development, trauma and the impact on families. From 1986-1996, Dr. Jessup was a Staff Psychologist at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago where he provided inpatient and outpatient psychotherapy with children, adolescents and adults; family therapy; diagnostic testing and evaluation; supervision and teaching for the APA-approved (clinical psychology) internship program and child psychiatry residency program. He began to specialize in high-risk families, including sexual abuse, physical abuse and neglect, and foster care. Dr. Jessup joined The Phoenix Institute in 1996 and later became the director of its Northfield Office, a highly respected center specializing in working with individuals and families suffering the aftermath of trauma, abuse and neglect. In addition to providing outpatient adult, child, marital and family therapy, diagnostic testing and forensic assessment, he was responsible for clinical supervision of the multidisciplinary group practice providing specialized clinical services in the areas of traumatic stress, loss, and problems of emotional and sexual intimacy. Dr. Jessup has been an Instructor in the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Director of Group and Therapeutic Community Services at Yellowbrick. He earned his doctorate in clinical psychology from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology in 1999, after having completed his master’s degree in the social sciences at the University of Chicago in 1992. Prior to his graduate training, he graduated from Kalamazoo College with a bachelor’s liberal arts degree with a major in psychology. He has worked in the field of mental health for the past 33 years. His background is grounded in psychodynamic and family systems-based approaches. Most of his career had been at the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School at the University of Chicago and the Brooke Whitted Center, residential and therapeutic school programs for children through emerging adulthood with profound mental health and special educational needs, serving in almost every role from direct care staff to Co-Executive Director. His tenure at the school was formative in his experience working within a therapeutic community and doing group work. Early on in his career, he worked as a psychometrician, outpatient therapist, and interned as a staff therapist at the Manhattan Psychiatric Center, a state-run inpatient mental health hospital. Dr. Myers is an executive board member of the Association Children’s Residential and Community, an international organization advancing quality interventions for youth of all ages and their families with an emphasis on residential treatment. He values working with families, recognizing the importance of the interdependence between individuals and family in understanding their challenges and supporting them in building a meaningful future. He has been a strong leader and advocate for quality interventions for LGBTQ+ individuals, in particular gender diverse individuals, which are affirming and respectful of one’s identity development. He is committed to collaborating with each person as a unique individual and values each person’s distinctive and diverse characteristics, including race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, and ability. Dr. Myers serves as a part-time lecturer at the University of Chicago’s Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice and the Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Chicago Campus.

Graduate of Loyola University of Chicago, subsequently earning a Master’s in Human Development from the Pennsylvania State University and a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. He completed a two-year NIMH Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Research and Clinical Work in Adolescence, jointly sponsored by Northwestern University Medical School and The University of Chicago. Dr. Losoff brings a deep understanding of development during adolescence and young adulthood and to utilizing this understanding within the kinds of rich clinical settings that are relevant and resonant to Yellowbrick’s intensive community immersion model of treatment. These settings have included the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School at the University of Chicago and Little City Foundation. He has an appreciation of and expertise with in-depth, analytically informed psychotherapy and was the Founding Director and Coordinator of Clinical Services of the Center for Depth Psychotherapy at the C.G. Jung Center of Chicago. Additional leadership roles have included Program Director of the Child and Family Consultation Center at Community Counseling Centers of Chicago (C4). Dr. Losoff served as president (2013-2014) of the Chicago Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology. Dr. Losoff is the father of an emerging adult daughter and son.

Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist in private practice and an academic researcher (Oxford Brookes University) and educator (Canterbury Christ Church University). Dr. Yeates has worked in community neuro-rehabilitation for over 20 years and has innovated and pioneered the adaptations of psychological therapies for survivors of acquired brain injury and their significant others, including brief psychodynamic approaches. He is a past journal editor (Neuro-Disability & Psychotherapy) and currently is the editor of two book series for Routledge (Brain Injuries; Neuro-Disability & Psychotherapy: Specialist Topics). Dr. Yeates has published several articles, chapters and books. He is a past International Neuropsychoanalysis Fellow.

Psychoanalyst in private practice in New York who works with both brain-injured and non-brain-injured patients. She is a former board member and Vice President of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP) and is currently on the board of the Object Relations Institute. She is the director of the Edith Laufer Neuropsychoanalytic Clinical Study Center of NPAP and has served on its steering committee since its inception in 2003. She has been facilitating the Neuropsychoanalytic Reading and Study Group at NPAP since 2015 and has presented clinical papers at the International Neuropsychoanalysis Congress in New York, South Africa and Chicago.

Obtained his medical degree at Tel-Aviv University after completing his medical internship at Sourasky Medical Center in Tel-Aviv. Currently, he is training in child and adolescent psychiatry at The Jerusalem Mental Health Center after training in general psychiatry at Shalvata Mental Health Center, which is a leading institute in the field of psychodynamic-oriented therapy. The case presentation pertains to a patient treated by Yacov Rothman under the supervision of Iftah Biran, a specialist in neurology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis, at Sourasky Medical Center Neurology Department during a clinical rotation in neurology.

Psychology, an M.Sc. in Psychoneuroimmunoendocrinology and a Bachelors’ degree in Psychology. He is an assistant at the College of Psychology at the Universidad de la República, Uruguay. He has been an assistant of: Psychoanalysis (1998-2008), Neurobiology and Neuropsychology (2009-2017), Psychological Theories (2018-present), (2010-2017) Member of the Traumatic Brain Injury rehabilitation team, (2012-present) Member of the Servicio de Atención Psicológica Preventivo Asistencial (SAPPA). He is a clinical psychologist who has also worked with children and adolescents.

Child psychiatrist, Associate Professor of Child Psychiatry at Université de Paris, France. She is interested in the multidisciplinary approach and the crossing of fields, in particular between neurodevelopment, neurosciences and psychoanalysis. She specializes in the diagnosis and management of psychopathological disorders related to brain damage. She conducts research on the development of at-risk babies (links between neurological disorders, psychopathology, quality of interactions, attachment, and development), on psychotherapy processes with patients with cerebral, genetic or developmental impairment, and somatoform disorders in children and adolescents. She created the CNEP (Circle of Neuropsychology and Psychoanalysis) in 2006, co-created the RFPN (French speaking Network Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience) in 2021 with Ariane Bazan, is co-responsible for the Psychopathology Branch of SFPEADA (French Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines).

Psychologist and clinical neuroscientist. Currently, he is a researcher and clinical psychologist at the Institute for Maternal and Child Health IRCCS “Burlo Garofolo,” Division of Neonatology, in Trieste (Italy). His research activity concerns the application of multichannel near-infrared spectroscopy, a functional and non-invasive brain imaging technique, to the study of cerebral cortex functioning in full term and preterm newborns. The study of parents’ cerebral cortex functioning during the parental relationship is among his research fields of interest as well.

Received medical education in Russian State Medical University. He completed his residency training in psychiatry at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York and a fellowship in child psychiatry at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. Dr. Fradkin is an assistant clinical professor at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. His interests include works in autism, genetics, and the neuroscience of psychotherapy. He is active in clinical work with a private practice in Manhattan and New Jersey.

Psychoanalyst in private practice. She was initially trained as a medical doctor and practiced psychiatry in her original country. She studied brain science and psychophysiology further intensely while pursuing a master's degree in medical psychology. After she immigrated to Canada, she went through contemporary psychoanalysis training while working as a clinician in the University Health Network in Toronto. After finishing the training, she started her psychotherapy practice FWTherapy, which provides psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and supervision services. Francy lives with her family in a quiet neighborhood in the north of Toronto and enjoys reading and writing in her spare time.

Psychodynamically oriented clinical psychologist in Puerto Rico. He is chair of the Department of Counseling and Psychological Services and director of the Institute of Translational Research in Behavioral Sciences at the University of Puerto Rico, Ponce Campus. Dr. Ríos-Ruiz is also assistant professor at Ponce Health Sciences University and coordinator of the Puerto Rico Neuropsychoanalysis Interest/Research regional group. His current research interest is the role of implicit memory and affective processes in the etiology of psychopathology.

Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in full-time private practice in Chicago. She has been on the faculty of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute since 1991. Over the years she has taught many clinical and theoretical courses to psychiatric residents and psychoanalytic candidates. For more than two decades she has taught a course entitled “Mind & Brain” that introduces candidates to areas of neuroscience and cognitive science that have relevance for clinical and theoretical psychoanalysis. She is especially interested in thinking about the biology of meaning, the development of language from gesture, the isomorphism between the hierarchical organization of the brain and that of the mind, and the alterations of agency and motivation during the course of psychoanalysis. In 2017 she published Scratch and Sniff Proust, a book that combines Proust, neuroscience and the science of smell, art, psychoanalysis, and scent.

Maintained a private practice in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and clinical supervision since 1990 in Philadelphia. She is on the faculty of the DSW program and the Undergraduate Minor in Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and is a lecturer in the MSW program. She is an alumnus of the Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Teachers’ Academy of the American Psychoanalytic Association and was the 2018-2019 recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award of the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice. She is currently serving as Production Editor for Neuropsychoanalysis.

Student in clinical psychology at Duquesne University. His scholarly and clinical research interests focus on bridging neuroscience and psychoanalysis, specifically Lacanian neuropsychoanalysis. He is the recipient of the 2016 Undergraduate Essay Prize from the American Psychoanalytic Association and is the founder (and former director) of the Brown University Psychoanalytic Society.

Received his Ph.D. under Jaak Panksepp at Bowling Green State University in 1980 on the “Opioid Control of Canine Social Behavior.” Ken is also the co-author with Jaak Panksepp of The Emotional Foundations of Personality published in 2018 by W.W. Norton. For the past 25 years, Ken has worked in the area of personality, developing and using psychometric tools and exploring human change as an executive coach.

Cognitive neuroscientist at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany and a psychoanalyst-in-training in the German Psychoanalytic Association. Gerd studied psychology and philosophy, earning his M.A. with a thesis on the experimental investigation of repression and his Ph.D. with a dissertation on the electrophysiological correlates of memory inhibition. He aims at bridging psychodynamic insight with basic science, employing EEG/MEG, fMRI and TMS to investigate the neural dynamics of memory intrusions and memory control. He also sees patients on a daily basis in private practice and at the psychosomatic medicine unit of the university hospital.

Senior Clinical Psychologist, Organizational Consultant, is founder and chairperson of the Israeli Neuropsychoanalytic Society; founding member and board member of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society; Ph.D. student in hermeneutics and psychoanalysis, Bar Ilan University. Former head clinical psychologist in the Neuropediatric Unit, Infant Development, Tel Aviv Area, head of 26 well baby clinics. Coordinator of the course “Normalcy in Infancy” at the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University. Coordinator of the course “Sandor Ferenczi in the clinic,” held at 7 cities around the world. Studied fetal general movement, in Graz with Prof. Heinz Prechtel. Leading infant observation courses in Israel for 10 years, and leading consultation at IFSI (International Forum of Social Innovations).

Neuropsychologist (and a clinical psychologist), with an interest in emotion and its many consequences for mental life. His interests include emotion-based learning, and the experience that we describe as ‘intuition’; the role of emotion in false beliefs, especially in neurological patients; emotion regulation; and the neuroscience of psychotherapy. He is the author of some 200 scientific articles on these topics, and (together with Mark Solms) of the popular science text The Brain and the Inner World. For roughly a decade he was editor of the journal Neuropsychoanalysis, and secretary of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society. He is a professor of Neuropsychology in Bangor University, where he is also Deputy Vice Chancellor. In Bangor he runs an annual neuroanatomy course, the Visceral Mind Summer School, based on learning through drawing and painting brains.

Presently lives and works in the small town of Lambertville, NJ within view of the Delaware River and Canal. He was formerly the Vice Chairman of Psychiatry at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, where he is currently Professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychiatry. He is also on the faculty of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education (IPE) affiliated with NYU Medical Center in New York City. He received his medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed his residency training in psychiatry at Bronx Municipal Hospital Center. Most of Dr. Garrett’s professional career has been spent in the public psychiatry sector, first at North Central Bronx Hospital, where he became Associate Director of Psychiatry, and then Medical Director in 1995. In 1997 he became Deputy Director of Psychiatry at Bellevue Hospital, where he was responsible for clinical services. In 2003 he moved to SUNY Downstate as Vice Chairman for Clinical Services. At present his time is evenly divided between patient care, supervision of psychotherapy for psychosis, including consultation with first-episode psychosis teams around the country, teaching, and clinical writing. He has for many years had an interest in the difficulties clinicians encounter when trying to develop a relationship with psychotic individuals who have a fundamentally different view of reality than the clinician. He has a particular interest in the relationship between psychosis and ordinary mental processes and combined psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral treatments of psychosis.

Licensed psychologist in private practice in Gaithersburg, Maryland. I earned a Master’s of Science degree in Applied Mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and a Psy.D. in Professional Psychology from the George Washington University. I am Clinical Fellow of the Neuropsychoanalysis Association. I helped establish 21 Russian-speaking NPSA regional groups in 6 different countries.

Licensed Clinical Psychologist offering psychotherapeutic services in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Dr. Ramos-Rivera is also a part-time assistant professor at the Inter-American University of Puerto Rico, San Germán Campus and adjunct clinical supervisor for the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program at Ponce Health Sciences University, Ponce Campus. He has been a member of the International Neuropsychoanalytic Association since 2014 and member of the NPSA’s Clinical Registry since 2021. Currently, he is being trained and supervised in Transference Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) with TFP Chile and TFP Latin America, and is co-director of the Puerto Rico Neuropsychoanalysis Research/Interest Group.

Psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and researcher at Moscow State University, Faculty of Psychology; co-author of the books Hypnosis in Experimental Personality Research and Echo of the Unconscious in Painting - A Case Study.