Senior Clinicians Supervision group - 3
I am pleased to invite you to the third year of our Senior Supervisors Group.
We will continue the work we have developed together: thinking closely about clinical cases, reflecting on the supervision process, and learning from one another’s experience. At our last meeting, we also discussed ideas raised by members of the group about how this work might grow. I would like us to carry those ideas into the coming year.
This year, I hope the group will take a more active place within the wider Neuropsychoanalysis Society. Its members will be recognized as senior colleagues and supervisors, and we will begin offering opportunities for supervision to participants in the Certificate programme, as well as to other Society members who wish to learn with supervisors from our group.
This is a meaningful step, and one we can shape together. Our meetings will remain a place to bring questions from our own supervisory work, examine what helps a therapist develop, and consider how neuropsychoanalytic supervision can be taught and sustained.
I look forward to continuing this work with you. The meeting dates are listed here, and a payment link will follow.
Here are the dates:
7 February 2027
14 March 2027
18 April 2027
23 May 2027
20 June 2027
11 July 2027
19 September 2027
17 October 2027
14 November 2027
12 December 2027
Here is the link for payment:
Lecturers & Moderator
Lecturer
Prof. Mark Solms
Prof. Mark Solms (born 17 July 1961) is a South African psychoanalyst and neuropsychologist, who is known for his discovery of the brain mechanisms of dreaming and his use of psychoanalytic methods in contemporary neuroscience. He holds the Chair of Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital (Departments of Psychology and Neurology) and is the President of the South African Psychoanalytical Association. He is also the former Research Chair of the International Psychoanalytical Association (since 2013).
Solms founded the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society in 2000 and he was a Founding Editor (with Ed Nersessian) of the journal Neuropsychoanalysis. He is Director of the Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute.[2] He is also Director of the Neuropsychoanalysis Foundation in New York, a Trustee of the Neuropsychoanalysis Fund in London, and Director of the Neuropsychoanalysis Trust in Cape Town. He is a trustee of the Loudoun Trust.
He has published widely in both neuroscientific and psychoanalytic journals, including Cortex (journal), Neuropsychologia, Trends in Cognitive Sciences and Behavioral and Brain Sciences. He is also frequently published in general-interest journals, such as Scientific American . He has published more than 250 articles and book chapters, and 6 books. His second book, The Neuropsychology of Dreams (1997), was a landmark contribution to the field. His 2002 book (with Oliver Turnbull), The Brain and the Inner World was a best-seller and has been translated into 13 languages. His latest book, on the hard problem of consciousness, is entitled The Hidden Spring. He is the authorised editor and translator of the forthcoming Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (24 vols) and the Complete Neuroscientific Works of Sigmund Freud (4 vols).
Moderator
Dr. Irith Barzel-Raveh
Dr. Irith Barzel-Raveh is a Senior Clinical Psychologist and supervisor in Psychotherapy. She is the Founder and Chairwoman of the Israeli Neuropsychoanalytic Society, and a founder member and a Board member of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society. She coordinated the course “Normalcy in Infancy” at the Tel Aviv University Medical School. She taught Infant Observation in collaboration with Tavistock to a range of professionals from multiple disciplines. She was a head clinical psychologist of the Neuropediatric infant development center for the Tel-Aviv area and was head of 26 well-baby transdisciplinary clinics. She is a specialist in Professor Heinz Prechtel’s method of functional assessment of fetus General Movement (functional assessment of the brain). She is enrolled in a Ph.D. program in Psychoanalysis and Hermeneutics at Bar-Ilan University, where she is working on her dissertation under the guidance of Dr. Aner Govrin and Professor Mark Solms. She also works at her private clinic.