Mark Solms

Neuropsychologist & Psychoanalyst. Author of 'The Only Cure: Freud & The Neuroscience of Mental Healing' (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, NY: Pegasus, 2026).

[Mark Solms @Mark_Solms]

@KemtrupTweets @MariaBogdanos It's a reprint of Freud's (1895) 'Project for a Scientific Psychology' alongside a revision of it -- not of the language but the ideas -- that I published under the title 'New Project for a Scientific Psychology'. It's basically a translation of the ideas into FEP terms.

[Mark Solms @Mark_Solms]

@bgetsbetter @SimsYStuart Please set it up with [email protected]
Thanks

[Mark Solms @Mark_Solms]

@MariaBogdanos @KemtrupTweets My 'New Project' was published in English in the journal Neuropsychoanalysis. Freud's original 'Project' is published in English in the SE and the RSE. I don't think there is a plan t publish the Kabela/Lackinger book in English. Thx

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@jreidchapman @KemtrupTweets Will you be at the NPSA congress in Barcelona?

[Mark Solms @Mark_Solms]

@odriscolld I am not sure but I don't think so

[Mark Solms @Mark_Solms]

Unfortunately this is a ticketed event, but for anyone in Amsterdam that is interested ...
https://t.co/LMmpIsBY1O

[Mark Solms @Mark_Solms]

@MockClay @yantomr4 I said nothing in that book that I don't believe needs to be said. I know it won't make me popular, but that wasn't my aim. My aim was to speak plainly about the shortcomings of both of these fields, in the hope that we can all get over ourselves. But I'm not holding my breath!

[Mark Solms @Mark_Solms]

@DrSjBrooks I don't think that is very likely, at all; 'showing signs' is what it is designed to do.

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@xzistor @anilkseth @KarlFristonNews right on

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@tylerblack32 @GrantHBrennerMD However, see p. 112 for review. Leuzinger-Bohleber's (within-subjects) effect size increases impressively with each year of treatment. She is currently doing another study, comparing low and high frequency of sessions in psychoanalytic therapy. (Results due very soon.)

[Mark Solms @Mark_Solms]

@tylerblack32 @GrantHBrennerMD there is horribly little research on long-term psychotherapy!

[Grant H Brenner MD DFAPA @GrantHBrennerMD]

Reading "The Only Cure" by Mark Solms and struck by the data on the "sleeper effect" in long-term psychotherapy. @Mark_Solms

Unlike many treatments that plateau, the benefits of psychoanalysis actually increase after the therapy ends. 📈

​The numbers speak for themselves:
​Therapy vs. Meds: Psychotherapy (0.85) shows nearly 3x the effect size of SSRIs (0.31) for depression.

​The Big Leap: Long-term psychoanalytic therapy reached a massive 1.80 effect size for overall improvement.

​Durability: While meds often work only while you take them, analysis targets the causal mechanisms.
​The "Sleeper" Win: Patients with complex pathology saw effect sizes jump from 0.94 to 1.02 years after termination.

​Long recognized yet often downgraded alignment between Freudian theory and modern neuropsychology. 🧠✨

https://t.co/6c8KX8uzsw

#Psychology #MentalHealth #Neuroscience #TheOnlyCure

[Mark Solms @Mark_Solms]

@gpagnon Looks accurate to me, apart from a minor issue: I don't think perception is exclusively exteroceptive (which implies that interoception, too, is perceptual ... not affective).

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@SMcfarnell @DrSjBrooks I especially enjoyed the spanking part 😀

[Mark Solms @Mark_Solms]

A podcast about my new book ...
https://t.co/9tSyUJL303

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@DrSjBrooks My 'artificial consciousness' team and I are busy writing a paper on this; so, more anon ...

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@DrSjBrooks It is just a statement of opinion. It cannot be refuted. However, given what we know about how consciousness arises in humans (our only direct source of evidence), it seems very unlikely that everything is conscious.

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@DrSjBrooks will do ...

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@alethuros Not something I know anything much about ...