Oxford Neuropsychoanalysis

Jane Clarke and Elisabeth Spight Early relational wounding which drives narcissistic styles of relating, is often difficult to repair through primarily “talking” therapies, in part due to the role of implicit and neurobiological memory, which becomes activated in the therapy relationship. Movement based models work to engage the latter at a more primitive level than…

Tom Tomaszewski This talk explores the relationship between memory and improvisation in clinical practice. Drawing on Jaak Panksepp’s affective neuroscience, Walter Benjamin’s philosophy of time, and Cristina Alberini’s research on early infant memory, it considers what happens when remembering is treated as a live act rather than a process of retrieval. The clinical focus is…

Nicole Laurino reflects on the history of harm reduction/maintenance treatments for opioid addiction and how these treatments clashed, and continue to clash, with abstinence-only approaches. Nicole encountered this tension during her half decade working in outpatient mental health in Philadelphia facing the opioid epidemic. Medicines such as methadone and buprenorphine, slower-acting opioids that dull cravings,…