Neuropsychoanalysis / essentials (PDF)

Neuroscience and psychoanalysis initially appear as two fundamentally different, incompatible approaches to human experience and behavior. However, from the very beginning of the development of psychoanalysis, there have been repeated efforts to ground psychoanalytic concepts and processes in neuroscience. On the other hand, psychoanalysis provides a comprehensive model of the human psyche in all its complexity and dynamics, which could help to understand the diverse and often highly specialized findings of modern brain research in their entirety.

The author
Dr. Gerd Thomas Waldhauser is a psychologist, cognitive neuroscientist, licensed psychoanalytic psychotherapist and in training as a psychoanalyst. His scientific work is located at the intersection of basic neuroscientific research and clinical psychology. In particular, he is interested in the formation and control of involuntary memories and the exploration of psychoanalytic concepts with neuroscientific and experimental psychological methods.

This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.