The Hidden Spring
A Journey to the Source of Consciousness.
Articles by
Mark Solms
11 articles
Prof Mark Solms
Cape Town, South Africa
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Known for discovering the brain mechanisms of dreaming and his use of psychoanalytic methods in neuroscience.
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How to do psychoanalysis
Recommendations to clinicians practising psychoanalysis.
The scientific standing of psychoanalysis
Prof Solms on the core scientific claims of psychoanalysis. Includes an extensive list of studies covering the evidence base and efficacy of psychoanalysis and psychoanal...
What is Neuropsychoanalysis?
Professor Mark Solms answers the question for psychotherapists and demonstrates the usefulness of neuropsychoanalysis in organically impaired patients.
Psychoanalysis: Does one size fit all?
Prof Mark Solms on the psychoanalytic model of the mind, its relation to psychoanalytic diagnostic categories and their implications for psychotherapy
The Trouble with Psychiatry
Professor Mark Solms questions the ways in which psychiatry views mental disorders.
The Good, the Bad and the Brain
Is it good and right, in the ethical sense, to survive and reproduce and is it bad and wrong not to do so?
What Makes the Human Brain Human?
The human brain shares many similarities to those of other animals. But what makes it different? Professor Mark Solms considers this question and outlines how a bigger pr...
What is Emotion?
Few people recognise it but emotion is a sensory modality, like vision, hearing or smell. Professor Mark Solms notes that it differs from other sensory modalities because...
Why do we have Minds?
The mind is so central to our existence that we take it for granted. Professor Mark Solms notes that since we are our minds it might be worth considering its purpose....
What is the Mind?
Since in a sense the mind is all we are, the question as to what it is warrants a moment’s consideration. In the piece below Professor Mark Solms considers the essential ...
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