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{"title":"Discussion of Otto Kernberg’s paper “Some Implications of New Developments in Neurobiology for Psychoanalytic Object Relations Theory”","authors":"R. Galatzer‐Levy","doi":"10.1080/15294145.2022.2073564","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15294145.2022.2073564","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The attempt to integrate the well developed concepts of object relations theory with those of neuropsychoanalysis and affective neuroscience enriches both conceptualizations. It is suggested, however, that this effort is significantly limited by the reductionist strategy of both disciplines and that the use of concepts from nonlinear dynamic systems theory could inform further developments in the direction outlined by Kernberg.","PeriodicalId":39493,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychoanalysis","volume":"24 1","pages":"25 - 29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45746134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Dynamic Self in Psychoanalysis: Neuroscientific Foundations and Clinical Cases","authors":"Joshua Kellman","doi":"10.1080/15294145.2022.2054462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15294145.2022.2054462","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39493,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychoanalysis","volume":"24 1","pages":"117 - 121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45376961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Revisiting metapsychology, psychopathology, and developmental issues in neuropsychoanalysis","authors":"Iftah Biran, Co-editor, Richard Kessler, Co-editor, David Olds, Target Articles Editor, Daniela Flores Mosri, Managing Editor","doi":"10.1080/15294145.2021.2005670","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15294145.2021.2005670","url":null,"abstract":"In this issue of Neuropsychoanalysis, three original articles cover topics that range from metapsychological concepts to novel perspectives on psychopathology. Readers will find much to contemplate: nuanced explorations of several recent neuroscience models that have stimulated lots of neuropsychoanalytic ideas, such as the free energy principle, the default mode network and the basic emotion systems; and original research on the development of the basic mother-infant relationship, which adds to the literature on that topic with a rich qualitative perspective. If there were any doubts about the role Freudian metapsychology would play in the new discipline of neuropsychoanalysis, one would be well advised to look to this journal’s very first edition, featuring the article “Affect and the Integration Problem of Mind and Brain” (1999), by the master metapsychologist Barry Opatow. That brilliant offering foreshadowed metapsychology’s placement as the bridge between mind and brain. Over the years, highly profitable metapsychological explorations of dreams, consciousness, drive theory and defenses ensued. Still, perhaps nothing could rival the neuropsychoanalytic generativity of Karl Friston’s theories about free energy and predictive coding. This leading neuroscientist of the modern era (Bohannon, 2016), in his 2010 article “The Default-mode, Ego-functions and Free-energy: A Neurobiological Account of Freudian Ideas,” co-authored with Robin Carhart-Harris (Carhart-Harris & Friston, 2010), ushered in a renewed appreciation of the significance of Freud’s economic metapsychological perspective. His collaboration with Mark Solms eventually led to the Solms’ landmark reworking of Freud’s Project, “New Project for a Scientific Psychology,” which we published last year (Solms, 2020). Adding to that developing literature, in this current issue we are offered two articles inspired by Friston’s revolutionary neuroscientific work and grounded in psychoanalytic principles. Novac and Blinder’s “Free Association in Psychoanalysis and its Links to Neuroscience Contributions” presents an encyclopedic review of the evolution of this fundamental psychoanalytic concept and establishes it as a unique process amidst other types of spontaneous thought, such as mind wandering and meditation. It is “examined in the light of the literature on free energy, predictive coding, error prediction, and down-regulation of the default mode network.” This view establishes it not only as a psychoanalytic technique, but as a “fundamental mental state linked to the creation of novel and adaptive memory paradigms.” Fabio Thá, Eduardo Buatim Nion da Silveira, and Tiago Buatim Nion da Silveira’s “The Hysterical Symptom: A proposal of the articulation of the Freudian theory and the Bayesian Account”, which builds on Michael’s 2018 article in Neuropsychoanalysis, “On the Scientific Prospects for Freud’s Theory of Hysteria” is even more directly indebted to Friston’s work. Freud’s case history ","PeriodicalId":39493,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychoanalysis","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46454743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Some implications of new developments in neurobiology for psychoanalytic object relations theory","authors":"O. Kernberg","doi":"10.1080/15294145.2021.1995609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15294145.2021.1995609","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper proposes that the primary motivational systems are affect systems, and that libido and aggression represent secondary developments of affect integration. Drives still derive ultimately from neurobiology but are organized and represented in unconscious conflicts between love and aggression expressed in internalized affect-invested object relations. Regarding the development of the dynamic unconscious, conflicts between love and aggression are originally conscious in the context of the primary activation of affect systems in the relation between self and other (mother), but their traces remain only in the behavior patterns, and fragmented affects if extremely traumatic circumstances prevail. Ordinarily, these conflicts are assimilated into a second stage of splitting mechanisms, and if fixated at that stage, expressed as the borderline personality organization. In a normal third stage, identity integration evolves, with the predominance of repressive mechanisms, the establishment of the tripartite intrapsychic structure, and a truly consolidated dynamic unconscious. This paper concludes with an outline of the therapeutic implications of this developmental sequence of intrapsychic organizations.","PeriodicalId":39493,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychoanalysis","volume":"24 1","pages":"3 - 12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48701019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Report on “Neuropsychoanalysis Around the World Again,” an online meeting hosted by the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society, June 2021","authors":"Daniela Flores Mosri","doi":"10.1080/15294145.2021.2004212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15294145.2021.2004212","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT As the world still struggles with the coronavirus pandemic, the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society had an online event in lieu of its annual Congress. The meeting was titled “Neuropsychoanalysis Around the World Again” and it was attended by a multinational audience from countries that included Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, the Russian Federation, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Uruguay. The event featured presentations on consciousness, clinical perspectives, Lacanian neuropsychoanalysis, and memory research.","PeriodicalId":39493,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychoanalysis","volume":"23 1","pages":"121 - 130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46951784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Comments on the “New Project for a Scientific Psychology: General Scheme” by Mark Solms","authors":"O. Kernberg","doi":"10.1080/15294145.2021.1983453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15294145.2021.1983453","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This review of Mark Solms’ effort to “update” Freud’s original proposal for a scientific psychology considers Solms’ proposal an impressive, pathbreaking, unifying theory that bridges the relationship between neuronal structures and subjective experience. The combination of Panksepp’s affect theory and Friston’s computational information theory proposed in Solms’ model permits us to clarify common principles of organization and functioning of neurobiological structures and intrapsychic processes, and advances significantly our understanding of mental functioning in health and disease. This review includes mentioning aspects of this proposal that may require further elaboration, such as the comprehensive concept of the self, and the relationship between affects and drives.","PeriodicalId":39493,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychoanalysis","volume":"23 1","pages":"111 - 114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48932083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The hysterical symptom: A proposal of articulation of the Freudian theory and the Bayesian account","authors":"Fabio Thá, Eduardo B. N. da Silveira, Tiago B. N. da Silveira","doi":"10.1080/15294145.2021.1999845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15294145.2021.1999845","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Freudian theory of the hysterical symptom conceives it as a form of symbolic solution to an unresolved psychic conflict that has been repressed. A large section of Freud's early psychological writings is dedicated to the theoretical discussion of how a part of the body can be used as a symbol. This theory establishes a correlation between bodily experience and the experience of psychic conflict. This correlation can be contingent or metaphoric, and makes the bodily experience the symbol of the conflict. This theory fits the proposal of the Bayesian brain approach to the conversion symptoms (or Functional Motor and Sensory Symptom, FMSS). The precision of prior beliefs and prediction errors in the generation of what we perceive is modulated by attention. The cause of the FMSS can be considered as produced by abnormal priors to which excessive precision is given, thus leading to false perceptual inferences to explain the emergence of belief at the intermediate level. In the psychic conflict, too much precision is given to the sensory evidence coming from the desire, increasing uncertainty. As this fact results in the impossibility of experiencing the conflict and managing the affective overload, the attention is directed to the organic symptom that was available concomitantly to which the excessive precision is transferred. This paper intends to approximate the Freudian view of the conversion symptom and the Bayesian approach, showing that the articulation between symbolic reading and neuroscientific reading complement and clarify each other.","PeriodicalId":39493,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychoanalysis","volume":"23 1","pages":"83 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42448997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Free association in psychoanalysis and its links to neuroscience contributions","authors":"A. Novac, B. Blinder","doi":"10.1080/15294145.2021.1976666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15294145.2021.1976666","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Free association is still widely accepted as a fundamental component of psychoanalysis. However, despite notable advances in cognitive science, only a limited number of studies of free association by means of neurological methods exist. This review surveys a representative sample of neuroimaging studies on free association available to this date. Neuroimaging findings on free association, mind wandering, meditation, and other forms of spontaneous thought process seem to share significant commonalities. Free association is also examined in view of the literature on free energy, predictive coding, error prediction, and down-regulation of the default mode network. In this sense, the authors propose that free association and the role of the default mode network and the executive network are part of a complex process of adaptive reshaping of thought and autobiographical memory. The authors further propose that FA is an internally energized emotional cognitive mobility that taps into all forms of memory (episodic, implicit, embodied unformulated) and facilitates memory reconsolidation and simulation of future possibilities. In addition, creativity, as an evolutionary potential to form predictions and paradigm shifts, is presented in the context of adaptation and survival. Seen in this context, free association can lead to a creative therapeutic change in treatment that favors introspective, ontoethical, and social adaptation. Further investigation of free association by means of neuroscientific studies will need to include more specific parameters that closely mimic the experience of free association during psychoanalysis.","PeriodicalId":39493,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychoanalysis","volume":"23 1","pages":"55 - 81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47951696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Response to Otto Kernberg","authors":"M. Solms","doi":"10.1080/15294145.2021.1984284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15294145.2021.1984284","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT It gives me great pleasure to respond to Otto Kernberg’s commentary on my “New Project for a Scientific Psychology” (2020). It is gratifying to receive praise from a psychoanalyst of his stature. Many other leading colleagues are still ideologically opposed to neuropsychoanalysis, which is nothing short of tragic for the future of psychoanalysis. Hopefully this commentary will persuade some of them to rethink their positions. In my response, however, I will focus on the few areas of disagreement between Kernberg and me.","PeriodicalId":39493,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychoanalysis","volume":"23 1","pages":"115 - 119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44565308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Blurred body boundaries of first-time mothers: An interpretative phenomenological analysis","authors":"Nora Stumpfögger, Elena Panagiotopoulou","doi":"10.1080/15294145.2021.1972441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15294145.2021.1972441","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The assumption that, during early motherhood, there is an intense physical and psychological connection between mother and infant and a sense that the infant belongs to the maternal body ego has long been a matter of theoretical discussion in the psychoanalytic literature, yet empirical evidence has been scarce. This exploratory study investigated first-time mothers’ experiences of bodily connectedness with their babies and perception of their body boundaries. To gain an in-depth understanding of mothers’ experiences, semi-structured interviews were conducted with five first-time mothers, whose babies were between 18 and 29 weeks old, and were analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). Findings highlighted the importance of skin-to-skin contact in bonding with the baby; a blurring of body boundaries – especially when the baby is in distress; and emotional challenges of adapting to numerous changes involving the maternal body. This study was conducted just before and during the first lockdown in the UK in response to the outbreak of COVID-19, offering a unique opportunity to consider the pandemic and associated restrictions as a contextual factor.","PeriodicalId":39493,"journal":{"name":"Neuropsychoanalysis","volume":"23 1","pages":"97 - 109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46210512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}