Reflections on 20 years of<i>Neuropsychoanalysis</i>

Balchin, Ross; Barry, Virginia; Bazan, Ariane; Blechner, Mark J.; Clarici, Andrea; Mosri, Daniela Flores; Fotopoulou, Aikaterini; Goergen, Maria Sonia; Kessler, Richard J.; Matthis, Iréne; Zúñiga, Jose Fernando Muñoz; Northoff, Georg; Olds, David D.; Oppenheim, Loïs; Reismann-Lagrèze, Doris; Tsakiris, Manos; Watt, Doug; Yeates, Giles; Zellner, Maggie

doi:10.1080/15294145.2019.1695978

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“…The need of the developing brain to obtain endorphins requires their intake no matter what the source is, just as a low blood glucose level requires its intake no matter how the food is supplied. If a child experiences separation distress and feelings of loss, endorphins are released to soothe the pain of emotional trauma, similar to when the body produces endorphins to decrease physical pain (Balchin et al, 2019). The brain still gets the same chemicals, but the pathway for its release is completely different.…”

Section: The Role Of Biochemistrymentioning

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Creativity: Challenges and Obstacles to Blossoming

Rykova

2023

Brit J Psychotherapy

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This paper addresses the conditions for the development of creativity and the possible obstacles along the way. It explores conscious and unconscious mechanisms which either impede or support this process. Creativity is seen as a special case of relationships between internal and external objects, with some aspects being more consistent and others being more fluid throughout an individual's life. This paper is based on the clinical experience of psychodynamic work with clients whose psychological predicaments related to creativity impoverished different areas of their lives. The non‐exhaustive list of factors to be considered when working with those clients includes a blocked epistemophilic instinct, excessively repressed aggression, and strong negative projections. A harsh superego opposing a weak ‘internal supporter’ combined with an internalised negative parental attitude to their own creativity constitutes a powerful unconscious force which prevents it from blossoming. A high level of basic anxiety, a low degree of omnipotence, and the release of endorphins in response to suffering contribute to these difficulties. Insufficient capacity to sublimate emotions and an inability to free associate prevent clients from finding the links between ideas born in the mind and their expression that could be accessed by others.

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Creativity: Challenges and Obstacles to Blossoming

Rykova

2023

Brit J Psychotherapy

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“…The next question to address is why there should be a dialog with the neurosciences. Freud was a neurologist for 20 years before he created psychoanalysis (Sacks, 1998) which means that the basic science of psychoanalysis is neuroscience (Johnson and Flores Mosri, 2016) and that there would be no psychoanalysis at all without Freud's neurological work (Flores Mosri, 2019b). Taking account of the well-known correlates of the brain and the mind, it is no wonder that the neurosciences are crucial for Freud's proposal of a metapsychology (Solms, 2021).…”

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Clinical Applications of Neuropsychoanalysis: Hypotheses Toward an Integrative Model

Mosri

2021

Front. Psychol.

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Neuropsychoanalysis has been established as a field based on the dialog between psychoanalysis and the neurosciences. Freud was a neurologist for 20 years and used the neuroscientific knowledge of his time as the foundation of his metapsychology. Psychoanalysis has predominantly relied on its own method to develop techniques for the different psychoanalytic treatments. It rarely uses contributions from fields outside psychoanalysis that could enrich its understanding of the mind. Neuropsychoanalysis has informed and revised several topics in psychoanalysis, for example consciousness and the unconscious, dreams, and affect amongst many others. Clear clinical applications of neuropsychoanalysis can be appreciated in the work with neurological patients. However, a constant question from clinicians is whether neuropsychoanalytic findings can contribute to psychoanalytic treatments with non-neurological patients. This paper explores clinical applications of neuropsychoanalysis mainly based on affective neuroscience to propose an analysis of emotions that may contribute to the gradual development of a neuropsychoanalytically informed psychotherapy. The task of integrating neuroscientific knowledge into psychoanalytic technique is still considered a challenge of accentuated complexity, but it is at the same time a necessary and promising endeavor that aims at improving the quality of the treatments available for human suffering and psychopathology.

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“…452-455). This dream signaled the birth of psychoanalysis with the publication of The Interpretation of Dreams (Kessler, 2020). It began, "Old Brücke set me some task"a dissection of the nervous system of the lamprey, a primitive fish.…”

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confidence: 99%