BookHeinz Boeker, Peter Hartwich, Georg Northoff, editors.
Summary: This book presents a comprehensive neuropsychodynamic strategy for treating psychiatric disorders. Rather than pursuing an exclusively biological, psychological, or psychodynamic approach, it offers a methodology that links all three aspects in a unifying, integrative model. Central to this approach is the view of the brain as a bio-psychosocial organ in a neuro-ecological model, rather than the purely neuronal model often presupposed in current neuroscience and psychiatry. Moreover, the book views psychopathological symptoms as spatiotemporal disorders of the altered spatiotemporal structure spanning the brain and its surrounding world. The relation between one of the core symptoms and altered neuronal activity calls for the development of integrated, circular neuropsychodynamic models of psychopathological symptoms in severe psychiatric disorders and their treatment.
Contents:
Intro; Preface; Contents;
1: Introduction; 1.1 The First Part of the Book: Neuropsychodynamic Foundations; 1.2 The Second Part of the Book: Neuropsychodynamics of Psychiatric Disorders; 1.3 The Third Part of the Book: Neuropsychodynamic Perspectives; References; Part I: Neuropsychodynamic Foundations;
2: Why Do We Need Psychopathology? From the Brain's Spontaneous Activity to "Spatiotemporal Psychopathology"; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 "Spatiotemporal Psychopathology": Determination and Distinction; 2.2.1 Psychological Approaches to Psychopathology 2.2.2 "Common Currency" Between the Brain and Cognition2.2.3 Experiential Approaches to Psychopathology; 2.2.4 "Common Currency" Between the Brain and Experience; 2.3 Spatiotemporal Psychopathology: Depression and Bipolar Disorder; 2.3.1 Spatiotemporal Psychopathology: Bipolar Disorder and Neuronal Variability; 2.3.2 Spatiotemporal Psychopathology: From Neuronal Variability to Cognition and Experience; References;
3: Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience: The Development of Neuropsychoanalysis; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Freud and the Demystification of the Unconscious 3.3 Freud's Voyage of Discovery3.4 The Discovery of the Phantasm; 3.5 The Topographical Model; 3.6 Freud's Second Topography and Concepts of Instincts; 3.7 The Mysterious Message of the Other and Its Consequences for the Concept of the Unconscious; 3.8 Unconscious Phantasy: Psychoanalysis and "Embodied Cognitive Science"; 3.9 Beginnings of the Dialogue Between Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience; 3.10 Lurija's Neurodynamic Approach; 3.11 Kaplan-Solms and Solms' Neuroanatomical Methods; 3.12 The Neuroscience of Subjective Experience; 3.13 Affective Neuroscience; 3.14 Concluding Remarks 4.8 Neuroscientific Findings Ia: Spatial Patterns of Neural Activity During Self-Specific Stimuli4.9 Neuroscientific Findings Ib: Temporal Patterns of Neural Activity During Self-Specific Stimuli; 4.10 Neuroscientific Findings Ic Social Patterns of Neural Activity During Self-Reference; 4.11 Conclusion: Self as Brain-Based Neurosocial Structure and Organization; References;
5: Three-Dimensional Neuropsychodynamic Model of Mental Disorders and Their Defence Mechanisms; 5.1 Introduction