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LIVE WEBINAR · SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2026
What Actually Heals?
Freud, Neuroscience, and the Talking Cure
A two-hour lecture and conversation
with Mark Solms, PhD
Sunday, November 15, 2026
9AM–11AM Pacific
12Noon–2PM Eastern
7PM–9PM South Africa
Online via Zoom
2 CPD units for psychologists
Can’t make it live? Registrants can watch the recording for 90 days.
$75 — General Registration
$50 — CPA, SFPRG & WMHListserv members with discount code
Free - SFPA and UCSF members with discount code
(email david@drbullard.com for respective code)
Co-Sponsored by:
California Psychological Association
San Francisco Psychological Association
San Francisco Psychotherapy Research Group
UCSF Division of Palliative Medicine
Dear Colleague,
Most of us were taught that Freud had been discredited. Yet nearly every therapist relies on ideas he introduced: symptoms have meaning, the past shapes the present, and talking within a relationship can change a life.
In his 2026 book, The Only Cure: Freud and the Neuroscience of Mental Healing , psychoanalyst and neuropsychologist Mark Solms argues that brain science is confirming Freud’s core insights, even where some of his theories were wrong.
About Prof. Solms:
- Chair of Neuropsychology: Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town (UCT)
- Director: Neuroscience Institute, University of Cape Town
- Director and Training Analyst: South African Psychoanalytic Association
- Co-Chair: International Neuropsychoanalysis Society (NPSA), an organization he co-founded in 2000
- Honorary Lecturer: Neurosurgery department at St Bartholomew's Hospital and the Royal London School of Medicine
- Senior Fellow: British Psychoanalytic Society
This is not a webinar about psychoanalysis. It is about what actually heals, for therapists of every orientation: psychodynamic, CBT, EMDR, ACT, somatic, couples, and integrative.
THREE QUESTIONS WE’LL EXPLORE
1. Why symptoms make sense
Feelings as signals of unmet needs; symptoms as protective solutions.
2. How talking changes the brain
Emotion, prediction, memory reconsolidation, and the therapeutic relationship.
3. What we’ve gotten wrong
And practical lessons to take back to your practice.
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