The only cure: Freud revisited
Mark Solms
Sat 4 July at 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm BST
£4.00 – £10.00 Psychology
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Few figures in psychology have been as influential—or as controversial—as Sigmund Freud. For decades many of his ideas were dismissed as speculative and unscientific. Yet developments in modern neuroscience have prompted a surprising reassessment.
In this lecture, eminent neuroscientist, best-selling author and Freud editor Mark Solms revisits Freud’s theory of mind in the light of contemporary brain science, arguing that psychoanalytic therapy is proving to be among our most effective medical treatments of any kind. He will explore what neuroscience now reveals about the unconscious, the emotional foundations of mental life, and the mechanisms through which talking therapies can alleviate psychological suffering.
Drawing on recent clinical research and his latest book The Only Cure – Freud and the Neuroscience of Mental Healing, Solms will examine how “the talking cure” compares with drug treatment, and why psychonalysis should resume its position as the most cohenrent and comprehensive theory of the mind. He will also consider why Freud and psychoanalysis have remained so fiercely debated for more than a century.
Mark Solms is Director of Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town, Science Director of the American Psychoanalytic Association and editor of the new Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud.
