Hybrid Conference
WHY IT MATTERS: NEUROPSYCHOANALYSIS
“How we really bring about change” with Dr. Mark Solms
Saturday, April 5, 2025, 9:00am – 3:00pm
Hybrid Conference on Zoom and In Person in Livingston, NJ
6 CE Credits
Patricia Bratt, PhD, Moderator
Co-sponsored by NAAP
Keynote Speaker: Mark Solms, MD
Implications for Clinical Practice of Recent Neuropsychoanalytic Findings
“Recent advances in brain science suggests that Freud’s ‘Id’ is not unconscious, that there are not two emotional ‘drives’ but rather seven, that ‘repressed’ memories can never be brought back to consciousness, etc. These findings must obviously have major practical implications for our clinical work. What we do as psychoanalytic therapists clearly helps, but it cannot help in the ways that we previously thought it did. In this talk, Mark Solms will explain how we really bring about change. This clarifies which aspects of our interventions should be focused on, and which can be safely dropped.”
Listening to Brains and/or Minds? Bringing About Change.
Panel Discussion with Mark Solms, MD
Patricia Bratt, PhD Moderator
and Cassio Campello, MD, Leah Heinz, BA-Psya Candidate, Elizabeth Olson, PsyD, Harlan Tenenbaum, JD & Adam Wright,PhD
MORNING SESSIONS
9:00 – 9:30am Introduction
9:30 – 11:40am Keynote
11:40 – 11:45am Brief Break
11:45 – 12:30pm Panel Discussion with Dr. Solms
Lunch 12:30 – 1:00pm
Afternoon Session 1:00 – 2:00pm
Film and Discussion:
AI vs. Human Therapists & Social Media Impact on Child/Adolescent Brains
Introduction: Patricia Bratt, PhD
Breakout Groups 2:00 – 3:00pm
2:00 – 3:00pm Breakout Groups/Discussion
An intimate time for everyone to share ideas and respond to the day
Onsite Reception 3:00 – 4:00pm
Professor Mark Solms is a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society and the American and South African Psychoanalytic Associations. He is Director of Neuropsychology at the Neuroscience Institute of the University of Cape Town. He is an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists. He has received numerous honours and awards, including the Sigourney Prize. He has published 350 scientific papers, and eight books, the latest being The Hidden Spring (Norton, 2021). He is the authorized editor and translator of the Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (24 volumes) and the forthcoming Complete Neuroscientific Works of Sigmund Freud (4 volumes).
Language, Communication is the desire, the longing and drive of the unconscious
Patricia Harte Bratt, PhD
is a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist practicing in Livingston, NJ and New York City. Her early career focused on psychodiagnostics and neuropsychology. Combining that with psychoanalytic training, she became involved in neuropsychoanalytic studies in the early 2000’s. Dr. Bratt is a director at ACAP, and BGSP-NJ. She is president of the National Association for Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP) and the NJ Certified Psychoanalysts Advisory Committee.
As Director of Applied Psychoanalysis at ACAP she developed it’s program in Trauma & Resilience Studies, and in 2018 launched the iStrive Center: a weekend program for young adults on the autism spectrum. Her recent book, Mutual Growth in the Psychotherapeutic Relationship: Reciprocal Resilience, is published by Routledge.
Questions? Email Cassio Campello: [email protected]
Or call 973-629-1002
Conference Fees
Zoom – General Event Fee
$100.00
Onsite General Event Fee (includes lunch) $110.00
Zoom – ACAP/BGSP-NJ Student Fee: $70.00
Onsite ACAP/BGSP-NJ Student Fee: (includes lunch) $75.00
Other Institutes Candidates: $75.00
CE Certificate – $15.00
CE Provider for:
NJ/NY Psychoanalysts
Social Workers
NY Social Workers
Mental Health Counselors (NBCC)
NY Creative Arts Therapists
Marriage & Family Therapists
Art Therapists
Psychologists
6 CE Credits
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