Research

Research & Projects

Our research is organised around the questions at the heart of neuropsychoanalysis: how the brain gives rise to feeling, how feeling gives rise to mind, and how that understanding can inform clinical practice.

Projects and team members are being added continuously

Ongoing Clinical guideline 2025 —

Developing a Clinical Guideline

Building on Jaap Panksepp's basic emotion systems, this project develops a clinical guideline for identifying these primary affective states in patients. Ongoing since 2025, it draws affective neuroscience and clinical experience together into a practical, theoretically grounded framework for assessment.

Involved

Anna-Luisa Sahlfeld Mark Solms Oliver Turnbull Steven Yeates Corey Haselton + further members to follow

Ongoing Theory & development

Connecting Psychoanalytic Theory with Neuropsychoanalytic Concepts

A set of theoretical inquiries into how classical psychoanalytic theory can be reconceived through neuropsychoanalytic ideas. Its strands share a focus on how meaning and emotion take shape in the developing mind.

Strands

01Symbolization in a psychoanalytic and neuropsychoanalytic context

02Psychopathology and smartphone use in children and adolescents

03Child and adolescent development

Involved

Anna-Luisa Sahlfeld Steven Yeates

In planning Clinical practice

Implementing Neuropsychoanalytic Treatment Concepts in Practice

A planned programme to bring neuropsychoanalytic treatment concepts into everyday clinical practice, and to reflect on how the field's insights can inform real-world treatment.

Involved

To be added

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We welcome researchers and clinicians who want to pursue these questions together.

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