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ARTICLE HISTORY Received 10 March 2026; Accepted 16 March 2026
Following the 24th Congress of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society in New York, the regional groups undertook various initiatives to sustain their enthusiasm for neuropsychoanalysis and to develop new areas of study in the field. This report presents the activities of 15 regional groups affiliated with the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society, including Turkey, Madrid, New York, Oxford, Spain-Argentina, Tel Aviv, Baikal, Lithuania, Stockholm, the Netherlands, Mexico City, California, and Ireland, as well as the newly established Vancouver group.
Regional groups have used webinars as an effective way of promoting neuropsychoanalysis, featuring invited speakers including Mark Solms, Maggie Zellner, and Pól Ó Mórdha. Other groups have used webinars to present topics such as mentalization (Turkey), the Oedipus complex (Mexico City), and affective neuroscience (the Netherlands). Seminars have also been a key strategy for the dissemination of neuropsychoanalysis. For example, the Madrid and Stockholm groups have organized seminars reviewing Freudian texts and the writings of Mark Solms and Karl Friston. The groups in Lithuania, Tel Aviv, and Oxford have held seminars on conversion disorders, addiction, and psychosomatics. Interdisciplinary collaboration remains an important feature in the work of many of our groups, who are developing links between neuropsychoanalysis and dance therapy, somatics, literature and applications to public health policy and general medicine.
These activities are complemented by an active commitment to publishing articles, books, and essays in multiple languages in order to expand knowledge about neuropsychoanalysis. Several regional groups, including New York City and Northern California, are incorporating seminars on neuropsychoanalysis into the academic programs at their Institutes. The Irish group has established an annual colloquium for the presentation of research t