Affective Neuroscience and Neuropsychoanalysis; an overarching basis for psychotherapy?

Schmeets, M.G.J. (Marcel)
Nederland

Submission type

Oral and Poster

Scheduled

Parallel Session VI: Blauwe kamer, 09-06-2018, 13:00 - 14:30

Kernwoorden

Affective Neuroscience, neuropsychoanalysis, Extended-Evolutionary-Synthesis

Doelgroep

mensen met weinig ervaring met het onderwerp

Workshop

The nested hierarchical overarching model of late Jaak Panksepp of the brain-mind, elaborated in his Affective Neuroscience, provides an excellent basis for understanding the evolutionary/phylogenetic and ontogenetic development and function of the mind. It is compatible with the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis and with many theoretical aspects of classical psychoanalysis. Affects are at the core of consciousness. All human experience is cathected with specific basic affects, on a line of Pleasure-Unpleasure. These basic affects have to be managed, by those parts of the human mind Freud called the EGO, due to restraints of the environment, according to the reality principle. Efficient brain processes tend to be automatized as much as possible and are therefore unconscious. This scientific based turning around of Freud’s model by Mark Solms into an ID being conscious and an EGO being unconscious is well compatible with contemporary clinical psychoanalytic practice, in which there is no remembering, other than a construction in the here and now of what happened there and then. Once stored in the non-declarative long term memory experiences cannot and never will be remembered. The ‘Ways of Being with Another’ can only be transferred, relived and understood in the therapeutic relationship with an educated listener.