Leon Petchkovsky
The Pinniger Clinic, AustraliaPresentation Title:
Advances in functional brain imaging technology and developmental neuro-psychology: Their applications in the Jungian analytic domain
Abstract
Analytical Psychology shares with many other psychotherapies the important task of repairing the consequences of developmental trauma. The majority of analytic patients come from compromised early developmental backgrounds: they may have experienced neglect, abuse, or failures of empathic resonance from their carers.
Functional brain imagery techniques including Quantitative Electroencephalogram (QEEG), and functional Magnetic Resonance Imagery (fMRI), allow us to track mental processes in ways beyond verbal reportage and introspection. This independent perspective is useful for developing new psychodynamic hypotheses, testing current ones, providing diagnostic markers, and monitoring treatment progress. Jung, with the Word Association Test, grasped these principles a hundred years ago.
Brain imaging techniques have contributed to powerful recent advances in our understanding of neurodevelopmental processes in the first 3 years of life. If adequate nurturance is compromised, a range of difficulties may emerge. This has important implications for how we understand and treat our psychotherapy clients.
The paper provides an overview of functional brain imaging and advances in developmental neuropsychology, and looks at applications of some of these findings (including neurofeedback) in the Jungian psychotherapy domain.
Biography
Leon Petchkovsky FRCPsych PhD, the Director of the Pinniger Clinic for the Psychotherapies at Robina, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Queensland, where he supervises PhD students.
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