Neuropsychodynamic Psychiatry

by Heinz Boeker (Editor), Peter Hartwich (Editor), Georg Northoff (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319751122
Publisher:	Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date:	10/11/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
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About the Author

Boeker, Heinz, MD, Prof. Dr. med. studied medicine at the Universities of Freiburg (Br.) and Giessen, Germany. He completed his doctoral thesis in psychosomatic medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Giessen. He was trained in paediatric and adolescent psychiatry, neural-paediatrics, neurology, psychiatry and psychotherapy/psychoanalysis in Hamburg, Giessen and Frankfurt/Main, Germany. He completed his habilitation thesis at the University of Zurich. From 1996 till 2015 he worked at the Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich, Head of the Centre of Depression, Anxiety Disorders and Psychotherapy. Heinz Boeker is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University of Zurich. He is member of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA). Since 2016 he works in a private psychiatric practice  in Zurich. His scientific work focuses on  qualitative research of the personality of depressed patients,  therapy research, and combined neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies in depression. He heads the research group “Therapy and Process Research”.  More than 170 articles in peer reviewed journals and book contributions, twelve monographs, eleven editorships. Member of several boards of reviewers and editors. He is one of the leading advocates of psychoanalytic psychotherapy in psychiatry and neuropsychodynamic psychiatry.

Website link: www.heinzboeker.com

Hartwich, Peter, Prof. Dr. med. psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, neurologist, forensic psychiatrist, works in clinical field with all kinds and especially severe psychiatric inpatients and outpatients for more than 38 years.  Coeditor European Archives of Psychiatry and Neurological Sciences for 10 years, Habilitation (qualification as a university lecturer) Subject of scientific investigation: Schizophrenia and cognitive disturbances, an empirical investigation, published by Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York 1980, apl. Professor University ofAachen. Director and head doctor of the specialist clinic and department for psychiatry, psychotherapy- psychosomatic at the general hospital of Frankfurt, teaching hospital of the University of Frankfurt am Main. Scientific work: more than 150 papers and chapters in books; selection of books: Hartwich, P. (1980) Cognitive disturbances in schizophrenia. Springer,Heidelberg-New York. Hartwich, P. (Germany), Fryrear, J.L. (USA) (2002, eds.) Creativity: The Third Therapeutic Principle in Psychiatry. Wissenschaft&Praxis, Sternenfels ,  Hartwich, P. Grube, M. (2015) Psychotherapie bei Psychosen (Psychotherapy on Psychoses). 3. ed. Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg ; Böker, H., Hartwich, P., Northoff, G. (eds.) (2016) Neuropsychodynamische Psychiatrie (Neuropsychodynamic psychiatry). Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg. As author and co-author: 10 chapters. Supervisor in psychodynamic psychotherapy in Frankfurt/M, Berlin, Munich, Dresden.

Georg Northoff, MD, PhD, FRCP is psychiatrist, neuroscientist and philosophers and works on the neuronal and neuropsychodynamic correlates of mental features like self and consciousness and psychopathological symptoms. He is a well-recognized expert in brain imaging of mental features and psychiatric disorders and one of the leading advocates of neuropsychoanalysis and neurophilosophy. His main focus these days is on resting state activity and its spatiotemporal structure and how that links to mental features including psychopathological symptoms. He is author of over 200 articles in neuroscience, psychiatry, and philosophy, published 14 academic books, and also 4 books for the wider audience including most recently “Neurophilosophy and the healthy mind. Learning from the unknown brain” (Norton 2016).

Website link: www.georgnorthoff.com

Table of Contents

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.

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Aaron John Plattner, MD (Network180 )
Description: This book illustrates the importance of using psychodynamic modules and mechanisms in concurrence with neurobiological approaches in the treatment of mental illness.
Purpose: Currently, the field of psychiatry is focused primarily on the neurobiological understanding of the causes and thus treatment of mental illness. While not discounting the current neurobiological theories, the authors strive to expand upon the understanding of the role of psychopathophysiology in mental illness by concurrently examining the biological, psychological, and psychodynamic influences on mental illness. This is a worthy objective that the authors meet.
Audience: The authors do not formally identify a target audience, but due to its high level of technicality, this book would be most suitable for psychiatrists, those involved in neurobiological research, and psychotherapists. The authors have gathered a highly skilled group of contributors who are experts in their respective areas.
Features: This book is organized into three parts. Part one presents a foundation of neuropsychodynamic principles, reviewing topics such as the unconscious, transference, and countertransference. Part two explores the neuropsychodynamics of various psychiatric disorders including depression, anxiety, and schizophrenia. The final part reviews neuropsychodynamic perspectives with regards to treating patients in different settings and with psychiatric conditions. Each chapter begins with an abstract, contains a few illustrations, and ends with references.
Assessment: I have found books to be steeped in either a biological or a psychodynamic understanding of mental illness, thus informing treatment of patients with psychiatric disorders. This book is a needed bridge between these two approaches. It integrates these two fields in ways that are both enlightening to better understand mental illness and encouraging for future treatment approaches. I have not seen a book that is this thorough in integrating these two fields. Future editions will be needed as more findings come to light, which will hopefully expand upon the use of treatment modalities with a neuropsychodynamic approach.

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