A Conversation with Dr. Mark Solms

Abstract

In Global Perspectives, we bring you interviews with psychoanalysts from around the world in an effort to explore the influence of culture, politics, and socioeconomic issues and how they influence training, theory development, and adherence to clinical technique and psychoanalytic practice in general.

Keywords:

• Apartheid
• dreams
• Freud
• neuro-psychoanalysis
• South African politics
• trauma.

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Notes on contributors

Jill Choder-Goldman

Mark Solms, PhD, is Director of Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town. He is Director of Training of the South African Psychoanalytical Association, Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society and Honorary Member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society. He is Research Chair of the International Psychoanalytical Association, Director of the Science Department of the American Psychoanalytic Association and Co-Chair of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society. He was awarded the Sigourney Prize in 2012. He has published more than 350 papers in both neuroscientific and psychoanalytic journals, and five books, including The Brain and the Inner World (2002), which was a bestseller translated into 12 languages. His selected writings were recently published as The Feeling Brain (2015). He is the editor of the forthcoming (2017) Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (24 volumes) and the Complete Neuroscientific Works of Sigmund Freud (four volumes). He can be reached at Department of Neuropsychology, University of Cape Town, Private Bag, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa; e-mail: [email protected].

Jill Choder-Goldman, LCSW, has been a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist in private practice since 2004, after graduating New York University and The National Institute for the Psychotherapies, where she trained in social work and psychoanalysis. She sees individuals, couples, and groups, and is also a supervisor to analytic candidates in training and the Interview Editor for the journal Psychoanalytic Perspectives. Her writing includes interviews with psychoanalysts from around the world, which explore how political, cultural, and socioeconomics affect their understanding and practice of psychoanalysis. She also interviewed the novelist A.M. Homes for a special issue, Arts on the Couch, and was the Guest Editor for a recent issue on “What Makes a Good Supervisor.”