22 Facts About Mark Solms

Mark Solms was born on 17 July 1961 and is a South African psychoanalyst and neuropsychologist, who is known for his discovery of the brain mechanisms of dreaming and his use of psychoanalytic methods in contemporary neuroscience.

Mark Solms holds the Chair of Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital and is the President of the South African Psychoanalytical Association.

Mark Solms is Research Chair of the International Psychoanalytical Association.

Mark Solms is Director of the Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute.

Mark Solms is Director of the Neuropsychoanalysis Foundation in New York, a Trustee of the Neuropsychoanalysis Fund in London, and Director of the Neuropsychoanalysis Trust in Cape Town.

Mark Leonard de Gier Solms was born on 17 July 1961 in Luderitz in present-day Namibia.

Mark Solms's ancestor Johann Adam Solms was born in the winegrowing town of Nackenheim in the Electorate of Mainz, and moved to the Cape Colony from the then-Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1838.

Mark Solms was educated at Pretoria Boys High School in South Africa.

Mark Solms emigrated to London in 1988, where he worked academically at University College London and clinically at the Royal London Hospital, while he trained at the Institute of Psychoanalysis.

Mark Solms is best known for his discovery of the forebrain mechanisms of dreaming, and for his integration of psychoanalytic theories and methods with those of modern neuroscience.

Mark Solms is reportedly the first person to have used the term neuropsychoanalysis.

Mark Solms is convinced that the only way to fully understand the brain is by bringing back together psychoanalysis and neuroscience.

The pivotal aim of Mark Solms' work is to provide an empirical method by which psychoanalysis can rejoin neuroscience in a way that is compatible with Freud's basic assumptions.

Mark Solms has received numerous awards, notably Honorary Membership of the New York Psychoanalytic Society in 1998, the American College of Psychoanalysts in 2004 and the American College of Psychiatrists in 2015.

Mark Solms has published widely in both neuroscientific and psychoanalytic journals, including Cortex, Neuropsychologia, Trends in Cognitive Sciences and Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

Mark Solms is frequently published in general-interest journals, such as Scientific American.

Mark Solms has published more than 250 articles and book chapters, and 6 books.

Mark Solms's second book, The Neuropsychology of Dreams, was a landmark contribution to the field.

Mark Solms's 2002 book, The Brain and the Inner World was a best-seller and has been translated into 13 languages.

Mark Solms is the authorised editor and translator of the Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud and of the forthcoming Complete Neuroscientific Works of Sigmund Freud.

In 1985, Mark Solms married Karen Kaplan-Mark Solms, who is a psychoanalyst and neuropsychologist.

Mark Solms-Delta is a farm, located in the Franschhoek Valley, with a rich history and prize-winning wines.