Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute

Dr. Solms will discuss how the emotional mind works (using Panksepp’s scheme for core human emotions) and how psychoanalysis achieves relief of mental suffering by making emotions conscious.

This CPI/AAPE webinar will focus on the concepts of internalization and identity, integrating the sociocultural with the intrapsychic. One thread of the discussion will involve the inevitable tensions between sociocultural determinants and individuality in the context of an individual psychoanalysis. Clinical vignettes will be interwoven with a review of the relevant literature.

This lecture will consider the importance but also the puzzles of gratitude in human life. Why is gratitude so important to our flourishing, yet why is it also so elusive? Attention will be paid to special issues concerning gratitude and its place in the psychoanalytic situation. Jonathan Lear, PhD