Download Institute for Psychoanalytic Education Affiliated with NYU School of Medicine

Institute for Psychoanalytic Education
Affiliated with NYU School of Medicine
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation
requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education
(ACCME) through the joint providership of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Institute for Psychoanalytic
Education (IPE). The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical
education for physicians.
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of
[number of credits] AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the
credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners
and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to
disclose.
Neurobiology & Psychoanalysis
Richard J. Kessler, D.O.
Norma Green, M.D.
September, 2015
READINGS
*Will be discussed in detail
**Background reading
# = Available on PEP
Class 1
INTRODUCTION : Why study neuroscience?
Reading: #Kandel, ER (1999). Biology and the future of psychoanalysis: A
new intellectual framework for psychiatry revisited. Am. J.
Psychiatry, 156 (4):505-524 *
Solms, M & Turnbull, O H. (2011). What is
neuropsychoanalysis? Neuro-psychoanalysis. 13 (2):132-145 **
Class 2
ANOSOGNOSIA: The “specimen” disorder of neuropsychoanalysis
Video: Patient Interview by Mark Solms
Classes 3,4 FREUD’S BRAIN: Under Construction (Power Point presentation)
Reading: #Freud, S. (1900) The Interpretation of Dreams. Chapter 7
(Regression) **
Opatow, B (2002) The distinctiveness of the psychoanalytic
unconscious. In Unconscious Mental Life and Reality.
R. Ekins (ed), H. Karnac Books: London **
Class 5
DREAMING: The End of the Debate?
Reading: Hobson, J.A. (2013). ERGO SUM ERGO: Toward a
psychodynamic neurology. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 49
(2):142-164. **
#Solms, M. (2013). Freud’s “primary process” versus
Hobson’s “protoconsciousness”. Contemporary
Psychoanalysis, 49 (2):201-208.*
Kessler, R. (2013). Consciousness: Nothing happens
unless first a dream”. Contemporary Psychoanalysis,
49 (2):176-188. *
Class 6
DRIVE THEORY
Reading: Panksepp, J. (1999). Emotions as viewed by psychoanalysis and
neuroscience: An exercise in consilience. Neurpopsychoanalysis,
1(1):15-37. *
Commentaries: To Be Assigned
Class 7
CONSCIOUSNESS
Reading: Solms, M. (2013). Conscious Id. Neuropsychoanalysis.
15(1):5-19. *
Class 8
DEFAULT BRAIN NETWORK:
Reading: Buckner, B.L., Andrews-Hanna, J.R. & Schachter, D.L. (2008). The
brain’s default network: anatomy, function and relevance to
disease. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 1124:1-25, 30-38. *
Class 9
ATTACHMENT
Mirror Neurons & Autism (Power Point presentation)
Reading: Gallese. V., Eagle, M.N. & Migione, P. (2007) Intentional
attunement: mirror neurons and the neural underpinnings of
interpersonal relations. Journal of the American
Psychoanalytic Association, 55:131-176 *
Class 10
DRIVES: What’s Love Got To Do With It?
Reading: Yovell, Y, (2008). Is there a drive to love? NeuroPsychoanalysis, 10 (2):117-145 *