Greater Expectations: New Beginnings after Brain Injury Forum

PUBLIC RELEASE DATE:

27-Oct-2014

Contact: Addavail Coslett ACoslett@MAFGRP.COM 212-843-8271 Neuropsychoanalysis Foundation

Lives are drastically changed following brain injury from strokes, accidents, tumors, and other incidents. Because the brain has changed, the person's mind is necessarily also affected, changing the sense of self, relationships with others, ways of functioning in the world, and much more.

The Neuropsychoanalysis Association (NPSA) and the Weill Cornell Brain and Spine Center are hosting this conference for researchers, clinical neurologists and neuropsychologists, neurosurgeons and psychotherapists. This conference brings together experienced professionals to discuss the services that are currently offered to patients with brain injury, and to point the way towards improved, expanded, and more integrated treatments that support patients to adapt and to develop new capacities.

The program will include presentations from medical clinicians and researchers on the experience of neurosurgeons in treatment of brain injury, research on traumatic brain injury and care, advances in neuropsychological testing, and psychopharmacological treatment for patients. Additionally, psychotherapy clinicians will present on the experience of working with brain-injured patients using psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral therapy and holistic approaches.

WHAT: The keynote address will be delivered by Dr. Philip E. Stieg, Director of the Weill Cornell Brain and Spine Center and Neurosurgeon-in-Chief of the New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. His patient, Nancy Jarecki, will speak from a personal perspective about recovery from a brain aneurysm.

Dr. Mark Solms (University of Cape Town), Director of the Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuro-Psychoanalysis at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and a founding figure of neuropsychoanalysis, will discuss how doctors can understand the very subjective and individual experiences of neurological patients.

Dr. Giles Yeates (UK National Health Service), will discuss how relationships between survivors and those closest to them are affected by traumatic brain injuries. Dr. Yeates will stress how psychological therapies can help survivors manage emotions and provide emotional support for all parties.

WHEN: Thursday, October 30 Highlighted sessions:

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Greater Expectations: New Beginnings after Brain Injury Forum