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.

I Neuropsychodynamic Foundations

Why neuropsychodynamic psychopatology?
Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience: The development of Neuropsychoanalysis
Social embedded brain and relational self
Threedimensional neuropsychodynamic model of mental disorders and defence mechanisms
II Basic psychoanalytic concepts and their development
Unconscious
Childhood, adolescence and development
Affects
Transference and countertransference
III Neuropsychodynamics of psychiatric disorders
Schizophrenia and other psychoses
Depressive syndroms
Manic and bipolar syndroms
Anxiety disorders
Obsessive-compulsive disorders
Somatisation and bodily distress disorder
Anorexia and Bulimia
Traumatogenic disturbances
Personality disorders
Dissociative syndroms
Addiction
IV Neuropsychodynamic Perspectives.-Principles of neuropsychodynamic therapy
Acute psychiatric wards
Neuronal substrates of depression: implications for psychotherapy
Mood disorders units
Day clinic models
Day clinic treatment for depression and anxiety disorders
Psychoanalytic therapy of Borderline-Personality-Disorder in day-clinic-setting
Neuropsychodynamics and creative therapy
Neuropsychodynamic musictherapy
Four psychotherapeutic settings
Psychotherapy, Psychopharmacotherapy, and Neuromodulation
Psychotherapy research in the context of neurosciences
Concepts of empirical and clinical research in Psychoanalysis and Neuropsychodynamic Psychiatry
Dreams
Chronic depression Leuzinger
Neurophilosophy and Neuroethics
Outlook: Neuropsychodynamic Psychiatry and the impact of therapeutical relationships.