BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:adamgibbons/ics METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:22204@offbeat.amsterdam SUMMARY:Was Freud Right All Along? DTSTAMP:20260512T185840Z DTSTART:20260610T150000Z DESCRIPTION:Might psychoanalysis\, so often dismissed as speculative or out dated\, still offer\none of the most profound ways of understanding mental suffering? What happens\nwhen Freud meets modern neuroscience? Can the un conscious be studied through the\nbrain?\n\nWho still lies on the couch? O nce\, psychoanalysis was a widely recognized and\npopular form of therapy. But this pioneering therapy developed by Sigmund Freud\nat the end of the nineteenth century\, is now often regarded with suspicion by\nmodern scie nce\, or even considered outdated: unproven\, inefficient\, and\nexpensive . More solution-focused forms of treatment\, such as cognitive\nbehavioral therapy and medication\, have displaced the talking sessions of\npsychoan alysis.\n\nBut did we perhaps dismiss psychoanalysis too quickly? Accordin g to South\nAfrican neuropsychologist Mark Solms\, the answer is yes. More than any other\nform of therapy\, psychoanalysis approaches human experie nce as something greater\nthan brain activity alone\, and mental well-bein g as more than merely the\nchemistry of the brain that can be altered with a pill. At the same time\,\nevidence from neuropsychology itself suggests that psychoanalysis can have\npositive and lasting effects\, Solms argues in his new book\, The Only Cure.\n\nPsychiatrist Damian Denys will engage in conversation with Solms: was Freud\nright all along?\n\nAbout the spea kers\n\nMark Solms is an globally acclaimed psychoanalyst and neuropsychol ogist\, known\nfor the integration of contemporary neuroscience with psych oanalytic methods and\ntheories\, and for his discovery of the forebrain m echanisms of dreaming. He is\nthe Director of Neuropsychology at the Unive rsity of Cape Town and Groote Schuur\nHospital\, the Science Director of t he American Psychoanalytic Association\, and\nthe Co-Chair of the Internat ional Neuropsychoanalysis Society.\n\nDamiaan Denys has been Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Amsterdam\n(UvA) since 2007 and head of th e Department of Psychiatry at Amsterdam UMC. He\nwas Chair of the Senate a t the University of Amsterdam from 2012 to 2018 and\nPresident of the Dutc h Association for Psychiatry from 2016 to 2019. URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/was-freud-right-all-along GEO:52.3630433;4.8828596 LOCATION:De Balie - Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10\, 1017 RR Amsterdam STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:amsterdam-centrum,books,idee & verbeelding,leidseplein X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Might psychoanalysis, so often dism issed as speculative or outdated, still offer one of the most profound way s of understanding mental suffering? What happens when Freud meets modern neuroscience? Can the unconscious be studied through the brain?

Who still lies on the couch? Once, psychoanalysis was a widely recog nized and popular form of therapy. But this pioneering therapy developed b y Sigmund Freud at the end of the nineteenth century, is now often regarde d with suspicion by modern science, or even considered outdated: unproven, inefficient, and expensive. More solution-focused forms of treatment, suc h as cognitive behavioral therapy and medication, have displaced the talki ng sessions of psychoanalysis.

But did we perhaps dismiss psychoana lysis too quickly? According to South African neuropsychologist Mark Solms , the answer is yes. More than any other form of therapy, psychoanalysis a pproaches human experience as something greater than brain activity alone, and mental well-being as more than merely the chemistry of the brain that can be altered with a pill. At the same time, evidence from neuropsycholo gy itself suggests that psychoanalysis can have positive and lasting effec ts, Solms argues in his new book, The Only Cure.

Psychiatr ist Damian Denys will engage in conversation with Solms: was Freud right a ll along?

About the speakers

Mark Solms is an globally acclaimed psychoanalyst and neuropsychologist, known for the int egration of contemporary neuroscience with psychoanalytic methods and theo ries, and for his discovery of the forebrain mechanisms of dreaming. He is the Director of Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, the Science Director of the American Psychoanalytic Asso ciation, and the Co-Chair of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society .

Damiaan Denys has been Professor of Psychiatry a t the University of Amsterdam (UvA) since 2007 and head of the Department of Psychiatry at Amsterdam UMC. He was Chair of the Senate at the Universi ty of Amsterdam from 2012 to 2018 and President of the Dutch Association f or Psychiatry from 2016 to 2019.

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