Professor Mark Solms- An overview of the brain mechanisms of emotion

This event was co-hosted with the UCT Cortex Club.

Unfortunately, the first 5 minutes were not recorded. In the first 5 minutes Professor Solms gave an explanation of homeostasis for a non-technical audience.

Professor Mark Solms is best known for his discoveries regarding the brain mechanisms of dreaming and for his efforts to integrate psychoanalytic methods and concepts with those of the neurosciences. He was educated at Pretoria Boys’ School and the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He left South Africa in 1989 to undertake psychoanalytic training at the Institute of Psychoanalysis in London, while he lectured in the Neurosurgery Dept of the Royal London Hospital and in the Psychology Dept of University College London. In 2002, he returned to South Africa, where he is currently Director of Neuropsychology in the Neuroscience Institute of the University of Cape Town at Groote Schuur Hospital. He is an ‘A1’ rated researcher (National Research Foundation) and a member of the Academy of Sciences of South Africa. He has received numerous honours such as the Sigourney Prize, the Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award of the International Psychoanalytical Association and Honorary Fellowship of the American College of Psychiatrists. He is Training Director of the South African Psychoanalytical Association (of which he was the founding President), Director of the Science Dept of the American Psychoanalytic Association and Research Chair of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He has published 350 neuroscientific and psychoanalytic journals articles and book chapters, and he has authored eight books. The Brain and the Inner World was translated into 13 languages. His collected papers were published as The Feeling Brain. A new book, The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness, which he describes as the culmination of his life’s work, will appear in February. He is also the 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).

Recorded on Zoom.

Enjoy!

[johnharrison]

Such a valuable talk. Thank you. Seven basic neural circuits of Needs in the emotional brain (subcortical). Not just in humans, but in all mammals. And the seventh need, Play, is a basic of social formation.