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Neuropsychodynamic Psychiatry

by (author) Heinz Boeker

edited by Peter Hartwich & Georg Northoff

Publisher
Springer Nature
Initial publish date
Oct 2018
Category
General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9783319751115
    Publish Date
    Oct 2018
    List Price
    $291.95

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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.

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Georg Northoff is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Mind, Brain Imaging, and Neuroethics at the University of Ottawa. He is the author of Unlocking the Brain, Neurophilosophy and the Healthy Mind and other books.

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