Mark Solms

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

@Mark_Solms Is this online ?

Unfortunately this is a ticketed event, but for anyone in Amsterdam that is interested ... debalie.nl/programma/was-…

@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!

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

@xzistor @anilkseth @KarlFristonNews right on

Why do we 'feel' emotions, rather than process raw physiology? Because a ~10Hz brain can't act on 40+ homeostatic signals at once. The brain collapses them into one body-located feeling. That compression IS emotion. Formalised mathematically in our new preprint.

@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.)

@GrantHBrennerMD @Mark_Solms Careful though you are comparing different comparison groups. Head to head, there is no data showing long term psychotherapy to be superior.

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. 🧠✨ simonandschuster.com/books/The-Only… #Psychology #MentalHealth #Neuroscience #TheOnlyCure

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

@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).

What can the free-energy principle tell us about meta-awareness, self, and consciousness? osf.io/preprints/osf/… via @OsfFramework . From a talk a couple of years ago—soon to be published in a book. Hope I didn't misrepresent @Mark_Solms and Thomas Metzinger's views! :-)

@SMcfarnell @DrSjBrooks I especially enjoyed the spanking part 😀

@DrSjBrooks @Mark_Solms Yes, I’m hoping there’s a Part II. By the way, what did you think of the movie ‘A Dangerous Method’ with Viggo Mortensen as Freud & Michael Fassbender as Jung?

A podcast about my new book ... open.spotify.com/episode/68QTmn…

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

@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.

@DrSjBrooks will do ...

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

@Mark_Solms Do you have any insight to subjects who are specifically operating via Sensorimotor Coupling without Representational Mediation by means of Spinal Reflex Arc? Sensorimotor Automatism/Pre-reflective Habituation/Non-Input/Output (NIO) Nodes. They use words as...

@DrSjBrooks Please hurry, then; I think there are not many places!

A little launch of my new book at the Freud Museum, 1st July ... freud.org.uk/event/online-t…

@AzzaAussieBTC Thank you!

@Mark_Solms Halfway through and I’m blown away, can’t put it down. Absolutely brilliant, deeply fascinating, and beautifully written. It completely reshapes how I see Freud, so often dismissed, yet strikingly on point. This one sticks with you. Masterpiece.