NPSI August 2025 Scientific Meeting: "The Music Before Words: Pre-Linguistic Resonance in Psychoanalytic Practice" Presented by Anastasios Gaitanidis, PhD

“The Music Before Words: Pre-linguistic Resonance in Psychoanalytic Practice” Presenter: Anastasios Gaitanidis, PhD Please join us for the third in a series of four Pre-EBOR Scientific Meetings leading up to the Fourteenth International Evolving British Object Relations Conference: Live from Seattle – The Music of Psychoanalysis, taking place October 17–19, 2025 in Seattle, Washington (USA). In this thought-provoking presentation, Anastasios Gaitanidis examines the musical dimensions of psychoanalytic work, revealing how pre-linguistic acoustic elements—rhythm, tone, and resonance—serve as therapeutic agents alongside verbal interpretation. He introduces the notion of an "acoustic unconscious"—a domain of unconscious process revealed through sound rather than repressed content. Drawing on Julia Kristeva’s concept of the semiotic and illustrated through clinical vignettes, Gaitanidis demonstrates how attention to vocal nuance, breathing patterns, and rhythmic exchanges can access traumatic experience that lies beyond symbolic representation. Through rich clinical examples, Gaitanidis shows how musical attunement between analyst and patient can restore dissociated emotional capacities, suggesting a more expansive and embodied pathway toward therapeutic transformation.