Join the Consulate General of Switzerland and the Neuropsychoanalysis Foundation/Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis for an evening on neuronal plasticityat the New York Academy of Medicine on Thursday, April 21.
Our brains are continually remodeled by experience. In this meeting, Pierre Magistretti and Francois Ansermet will discuss how the mechanisms of neuronal plasticity – critical for learning and memory – may also be key in the establishment of the dynamic unconscious, as described by psychoanalytic theory. This inner unconscious life proceeds from associations and re-associations of traces in neuronal networks; these processes can free the subject from initial experiences while being based on them. The lecture will also explore the mind-body connection in a way that opens novel perspectives for understanding the dialogue between bodily states and neuronal traces of experience, leading the way to personal freedom, identity and change.
7:00 – 8:00 p.m. Wine & Cheese Reception
8:00 – 9:30 p.m. Maggie Zellner, Ph.D., L.P., Moderator
Executive Director, The Neuropsychoanalysis Foundation
Professor Pierre J. Magistretti, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Neuroscience, Director of the Brain and Mind Institute at EPFL and Director of the Center of Psychiatric Neuroscience at the University of Lausanne Medical School and Hospital (CHUV)
Professor François Ansermet, M.D.
Chief of Service, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital of Geneva & Department of Psychiatry, University of Geneva
Q & A
Location: The New York Academy of Medicine, Room 20
1216 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10029 – Entrance on 103rd Street
Thursday, April 21, 2011
RSVP: by April 14th to nyc.events@eda.admin.ch