Nov 5, 2017
Neuropsychoanalysis is the latest and most exciting revolution
in psychoanalysis where the classical psychoanalytic constructs of
theory of mind, subconscious, transference and other, are finding
their neural correlates. Join us for the interesting show with
Dr. W. Scott Griffies M.D., DFAPA. Dr. Griffies is currently
an Associate Professor of Psychiatry with Duke Psychiatry and
Behavioral Sciences and the Medical Director of the Psychosomatic
Medicine service at Duke Raleigh Hospital. He is boarded in
General Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine and is certified in
psychoanalysis from the New Orleans Psychoanalytic Institute. He
recently relocated to Duke from New Orleans where he was
faculty at LSU Department of Psychiatry and Psychosomatic
Medicine Fellowship for over 15 years. His main academic and
clinical interest has been in the treatment and understanding
of psychosomatic patients. While at LSU, he won numerous
teaching awards and worked and directed services predominantly
focused on psychiatric aspects of medical and surgical
patients. He also served as the LSU Psychiatry Residency
Director for 8 years through Hurricane Katrina. His most recent
publication was “Non-mentalizing and Non-symbolizing Psychic
Functions and Central Sensitization in Psychosomatic
Patients”in From Soma to Symbol: Psychosomatic Conditions and
Transformative Experiences, edited by Phyllis Sloate.