Building a Psychodynamic Brain:
A Dynamic Approach to the Brain for Psychotherapists
A Workshop for Psychoanalysts, Psychotherapists and Other Enthusiasts
Maggie Zellner, Ph.D., L.P.
Saturday, May 7, 2011
9:45 a.m. – 3 p.m.
at NPAP
40 West 13th Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues)
New York, NY 10011
sponsored by
the Neuropsychoanalysis Foundation
and the Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis
This workshop is designed for clinicians who are intrigued by neuroscience, but need a more dynamically-oriented introduction to the brain. Lectures will provide an overview of brain function, stressing the correlation between emerging models of brain function and long-standing psychoanalytic models of drive, ego functions, and object relations. The workshop will give clinicians a good foundation in basic neuroanatomy and brain circuitry, providing a basis for thinking about how these “nuts and bolts” of the neurobiology of motivation, affect, memory, and self-regulation may underlie the day-to-day phenomena we work with in clinical practice.
Registration:
$45 for professionals ($35 for NAAP/NPAP members)
$25 for students and candidates
for further information please contact
Maggie Zellner at 212-604-4416 or mzellner@npsafoundation.org
Maggie Zellner is a licensed psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City, and a member of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP). She is also a behavioral neuroscientist with a Ph.D. in neuropsychology from the Graduate Center/CUNY, and Adjunct Faculty at The Rockefeller University. Maggie is the Executive Director of the Neuropsychoanalysis Foundation in New York City, and was a co-curator on the exhibit Brain: The Inside Story, now showing at the American Museum of Natural History. Maggie has been teaching neuroscience to psychotherapists since 2003, and has a reputation for being able to describe complex and often foreign information about the brain in terms that therapists can understand and relate to. She now takes every opportunity to link complex intrapsychic processes to underlying brain mechanisms, so she gets to use terms like “object relations” and “orbitofrontal cortex” in the same sentence.