Professor Solms is best known for his landmark discovery of the brain mechanisms of dreaming, and for his interest in the integration of modern neuroscience with psychoanalytic theories and methods. He is currently professor in neuropsychology at UCT, a lecturer in neurosurgery at St Bartholomew’s and the Royal London School of Medicine, and director of the Neuropsychoanalysis Center of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute.

He is widely published and his Clinical Studies in Neuro-Psychoanalysis won the Gradiva Award for Best Book, science category. His latest, The Brain and the Inner World, is a best-seller, translated into 13 languages. The American Psychiatric Association named him International Psychiatrist of the year in 2000.