Conference in Madrid of the Dr. Gabbard.

The seminar, entitled: “Psychoanalysis, neuroscience and borderline personality disorder”, will be provided by the Dr. Glen o. Gabbard, Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Baylor Psychiatry Clinic, Baylor College of Medicine. Psychoanalyst of the Houston Galveston Psychoanalitic Institute, Houston, Texas and member owner of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA).

The discussant of this Conference, Dr. Fernández Soriano, follows its content:

Dr. Gabbard Conference will focus on the relationship between psychoanalytic thinking and neuroscience in the psychoanalytic psychotherapy of the borderline personality.

Prof. Gabbard will depart a fundamental idea: knowledge of Neurobiology can help us understand the therapeutic action of psychotherapy with patients with borderline personality (BPD).

The speaker of the cerebral substrate of this disorder, such as deregulation central serotonergic, will try, hyper-responsiveness of the amygdala and the decrease of regulation by the prefrontal cortex and the bark before cingular. It will also seek changes in cerebral metabolism of glucose and the deficiency of endogenous opioids who suffer this type of patients and their clinical implications.

You will remember Dr. Gabbard, the way of being in the world of the BPD, as his reality distortion, which is not in perception, but in the interpretation of what is perceived, and also the space difficulty presented to assess whether someone is trustworthy or not.

Once established the main correlations between psychoanalytic thinking and neuroscience in borderline personality disorder, Prof. Gabbard will deepen in its concrete application to psychotherapy for these patients, collecting and comparing the contributions of different schools, such as attachment theory, or w. Bion and various psychotherapeutic techniques.

In conclusion, the rapporteur will valuable teórico-clínicas information on the peculiarities of the technique to use with the BPD to help the understanding of these patients and reactions which, very often may cause in the therapists.

All the theoretical contributions of Prof. Gabbard will be supported in the discussion of clinical material.
J. Javier Fernández Soriano

Note: This seminar which will take place at the Convention Hotel, Street O´Donnell, 53, Madrid, offers us the opportunity to meet his latest contributions to the study of borderline personality disorders, from a perspective that combines the knowledge of its substrate neurobiological and psychoanalytic understanding. The day includes a theoretical part with a lecture by the author, which will be commented on, and a second part of discussion with him about a clinical material. The day has been declared of health interest.