Mark Solms is a psychoanalyst and a lecturer in neurosurgery at the St Bartholomew's Hospital and the Royal London School of Medicine, Chair of neuropsychology, University of Cape Town, South Africa, and Director of the Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuro-Psychoanalysis at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. He is a registrant of the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC).Solms is known for his work in linking the clinical findings of psychoanalysis with knowledge generated by the neurological sciences, and is reportedly the first to have coined the phrase 'neuropsychoanalysis'. His work tries to connect the theories and findings of psychoanalysis, a science of the mind (thoughts, feelings,… memories, etc.), with modern neuroscientific knowledge of the anatomical structure and functioning of the brain.