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The Edith Laufer Neuropsychoanalytic
Clinical Study Center of NPAP
warmly invites you to join us at
The 24th Annual Congress
of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society
June 19 – June 21, 2025
Stern Auditorium, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
1468 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10128.
Early Mental Development: Incubating the Future
Keynote Speakers: Mark Solms, Beatrice Beebe, and Catherine Monk.
ELNCSC Symposium: “Reconstructing Early Trauma in the Therapeutic Process,” presented by Mary Edlow, Aideen Nunan, Ann Rose Simon and Robert Wolf.
Congress Theme: The integration of neuroscience and psychoanalysis has opened new frontiers in understanding mental-emotional health across the lifespan. Emerging research underscores the profound impact of prenatal development, particularly how maternal stress, anxiety, and depression can influence the uterine environment through epigenetic dysregulation of the placenta.
With advanced technological insights, psychoanalysts are now uniquely positioned to reinvent prenatal care; address mental health of parents; enhance infant vitality; and promote long-term family wellbeing.
The earliest years of life, by most accounts, are highly influential in how we think, feel, and behave for the rest of our lives. During those early years, we develop a sense of self and other, internalize relational rules, acquire language and the beginnings of self-regulation, and much more – and we barely remember any of it! Furthermore, the intriguing question of prenatal mental life has now yielded important contributions that can be added to our understanding of the beginning of mind.
What new light can be shed on the foundations of mental health and pathology when we integrate neuroscientific and psychoanalytic perspectives on early mental development? What new insights may arise when we consider the evidence that mental processes begin in utero, and that how we are handled in the first months and years of life shape the functioning of our stress, immune and memory systems? Some of these early childhood influences may re-emerge in adulthood after lying completely dormant for years. Exploring such exciting questions will be the focus of our meeting in June 2025.
As Allan Schore (2012) notes:
"Developmental neuroscience now clearly indicates that the prenatal and postnatal critical periods of early childhood represent the ‘most vital, vulnerable years.’”
And as Jackie Bezos, President of the Bezos Family Foundation, affirms:
"Science is clear that the prenatal period is critical to the future well-being of families.”
The ELNSCS warmly invites you to join us for an inspiring congress that will explore the highly significant implications of neuropsychoanalysis—for theory, practice, and humanity. |
