Neuropsychoanalysis An Evolutionary Perspective

Prof. Avshalom C. Elitzur is an Israeli physicist and philosopher with a somewhat unusual biography (see Wikipedia). He has obtained his PhD under the guidance of Prof. Yakir Aharonov, one of the leading quantum physicist of our time and discoverer of the Aharonov-Bohm effect. Together with Lev Vaidman, he has discovered the IFM effect, which has since become (in)famous as the "Elitzur-Vaidman bomb-testing experiment". In later papers he has presented advances in quantum mechanics, relativity theory and the thermodynamics. Other works of his deal with the thermodynamics of living systems. Together with Aharonov, he is currently at the Institute for Quantum Studies in Chapman University, Chapman, CA, USA.

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.