A COMPARISON OF FREUD'S THEORIES OF ANXIETY WITH CURRENT NEUROSCIENCE EVIDENCE: AN EVENING WITH MARCIA KAPLAN, M.D.

Monday, June 13, 2005
7:00 p.m. (please note earlier starting time)

Workshop Description
We are very pleased to welcome Dr. Marcia Kaplan from the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute to present on the exciting and thought-provoking field of neuropsychoanalysis. Neuropsychoanalysis is the study of Freud's concepts of the mind including affects, energy, dreaming, etc., from the perspective of modern neuroscientific techniques and clinical observation of brain-lesioned individuals. Closely allied in spirit, the study of affective neuroscience is based on the idea that the mammalian brain is organized around emotional circuits that are hard-wired and expressed via stereotyped behaviors, with specific neurochemistries and neuroanatomies. These emotional systems are conserved in humans, and by studying them, we can begin to build taxonomy of emotion "from the ground up" rather than by studying psychopathology with all its inconsistencies. Dr. Kaplan will introduce some of these concepts by discussing Freud's ideas about anxiety, the circuitry that serves anxiety in humans, and how anxiety might be expressed in its most basic forms.

As our last meeting of the 2004-2005 programming year, we invite all members to join us for refreshments to celebrate the conclusion of another successful year for the Society. Thank you for your continued involvement and support.