Athens: 14-16 June 2012
Educational Day: Thursday 14 June
Congress: Late Thursday 14 to Saturday 16 June
Do the brain mechanisms of addiction hijack those for love and sexual desire? How else do social bonds develop in the brain? This international congress brings together leading neuroscientists, psychiatrists and psychoanalysts to consider the links between addiction and dependency on the one hand, and love and empathy on the other. These links will be explored from multiple viewpoints: neurochemistry, brain imaging, developmental psychology and cross-species comparisons, as well as the first-person perspective of psychoanalysis.
The format of the congress will include keynote presentations from internationally renowned experts as well as panel discussions, focused symposia and interactive debates.
Speakers: PROF ERIC FERTUCK; DR MANOS TSAKIRIS; PROF YORAM YOVELL; DR MAGGIE ZELLNER
Speakers:
DR MARILIA AISENSTEIN, Paris & Hellenic Psychoanalytic Societies
PROF GARY ASTON-JONES, Medical University of South Carolina
PROF JEAN DECETY, University of Chicago
DR VASSILIS DIMOPOULOS, Hellenic Psychoanalytic Society
PROF VITTORIO GALLESE, University of Parma
DR CHRISTOS JOANNIDIS, Hellenic Psychoanalytic Society
DR NICHOLAS KOURETAS, Hellenic Psychoanalytic Society
PROF JAAK PANKSEPP, Washington State University
PROF MARK SOLMS, University of Cape Town
PROF NICOLAS TZAVARAS, Democritus University of Thrace, Hellenic Psychoanalytic Society
PROF YORAM YOVELL, University of Haifa
Website:
http://www.neuropsa.org.uk/congress/athens-congress-2012
