Boeker Heinz, Hartwich Peter, Northoff Georg (eds.) Neuropsychodynamic Psychiatry

Springer, 2018. — 630 p. — ISBN 978-3-319-75111-5.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.Neuropsychodynamic Foundations
Why Do We Need Psychopathology?​ From the Brain’s Spontaneous Activity to “Spatiotemporal Psychopathology”
Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience:​ The Development of Neuropsychoanaly​sis
Self Between Brain and World:​ Neuropsychodynam​ic Approach, Social Embedded Brain and Relational Self
Three-Dimensional Neuropsychodynam​ic Model of Mental Disorders and Their Defence Mechanisms
Unconscious:​ Psychoanalytic Perspective
What Is the Unconscious?​ A Novel Taxonomy of Psychoanalytic, Psychological, Neuroscientific, and Philosophical Concepts
Dreams
Transference and Countertransfere​nce
Neuropsychodynamics of Psychiatric Disorders
Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses
Depressive Syndromes
Manic and Bipolar Syndromes
Anxiety Disorders
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders
Somatization and Bodily Distress Disorder
Anorexia and Bulimia
Traumatogenic Disturbances:​ PTSD, Complex PTSD and Trauma-Related Disorders
Personality and Personality Disorders
Dissociative Syndromes
Addictive Disorders
Neuropsychodynamic Perspectives
Principles of Neuropsychodynam​ic Therapy
Acute Psychiatric Wards
Psychoanalytic Treatment of Borderline Patients in a Day Hospital Setting
Creative Therapies and Neuropsychodynam​ics
Four Psychotherapeuti​c Settings
Psychotherapy, Psychopharmacoth​erapy, and Neuromodulation
Psychotherapy Research in the Context of Neuroscience
Concepts of Empirical and Clinical Research in Psychoanalysis and Neuropsychoanaly​sis
Neuroscientifica​lly Inspired Psychoanalysis:​ Chronic Depression as a Paradigmatical Example
Neurophilosophy and Neuroethics:​ Template for Neuropsychoanaly​sis?​
Outlook:​ Neuropsychodynam​ic Psychiatry and the Impact of Therapeutic Relationships