Attachment Through the Lifespan Series:

Brain Mechanisms of Attachment and their Implications for Psychoanalysis

presented by:
The Parent – Infant Mental Health Project
In association with
Canadian Association of Psychoanalytic Child Therapists
and
Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis

‘Psychoanalytic drive theory was first challenged by Fairbairn and Bowlby and subsequently by various object relations theorists. More recent developments in affective neuroscience have led to a reconciliation of all three perspectives. This presentation will outline contemporary neurobiological views of the basic emotional drives that are at work in the human being, with a special focus on the attachment drives (of which there are more than one)’.

Professor Mark Solms is a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society and the American and South African Psychoanalytic Associations. He is Director of Neuropsychology at the Neuroscience Institute of the University of Cape Town. He is an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists and he has received numerous honours and awards, including the Sigourney Prize. Professor Solms has published 350 scientific papers, and eight books, the latest being The Hidden Spring (Norton, 2021). He is the authorized editor and translator of the forthcoming Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (24 volumes) and Complete Neuroscientific Works of Sigmund Freud (4 volumes).