In this enlightening volume, John Dall’Aglio provides the first comprehensive introduction to the groundbreaking work of Mark Solms, the neuropsychologist and psychoanalyst who pioneered the field of neuropsychoanalysis.

Dall’Aglio highlights a number of Solms’s innovations in neuroscience and psychoanalysis, both philosophical and methodological, and details his integration and modification of Alexander Luria’s dynamic neuropsychology, Jaak Panksepp’s affective neuroscience, and Karl Friston’s Free Energy Principle. The chapters chart the evolution of Solms’s sketching of a neuroanatomy of the mental apparatus, from his early clinico-anatomical work and his thesis of the conscious id to his proposed solution to the hard problem of consciousness. Dall’Aglio interweaves a discussion of the clinical application of neuropsychoanalytic ideas, both in case formulation and in technical intervention, and uses clinical examples of neuropsychoanalytic concepts to make the material in the book accessible to students, scholars, researchers and clinicians who are interested in what is to be gained by an integrated meta-neuropsychology of the mental apparatus. The book's structure, tracing the development of Solms's key concepts over four decades of neuropsychoanalytic work, offers readers a unique opportunity to understand the evolution and nuances of this complex field.

Mark Solms: A Contemporary Introduction is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the mutual relevance between neuroscience and psychoanalysis and the rapidly evolving field of neuropsychoanalysis.

John Dall'Aglio is based at Duquesne University, USA. His work centres on Lacanian neuropsychoanalysis.