ABSTRACT
This chapter considers several themes as reflecting the growth of neuropsychoanalysis: the people involved in the process, the methods used by the field, the theoretical underpinnings and the objects of study. The original Clinical Studies volume was the work of two individuals working in relative social and geographical isolation: Karen Kaplan-Solms and Mark Solms. The foundational clinical work was carried out in the 1980s and 1990s, before the setting up of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society, the foundation of the journal Neuropsychoanalysis, the First International Congress of the Society and the publication of the popular introductory work The Brain and the Inner World. The chapter provides an impressive and substantial range of developments in the history of neuropsychoanalysis.
