Psychoanalytical neuroscience: Exploring psychoanalytic concepts with neuroscientific methods

• Main Author: Henrik Kessler (auth)
• Other Authors: Gerd Thomas Waldhauser (auth), Nikolai Axmacher (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; Neuroscience; Neuropsychoanalysis; psychodynamic psychotherapy; psychoanalysis; neuroimaging
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Sigmund Freud was a trained neuroanatomist and wrote his first psychoanalytical theory in neuroscientific terms. Throughout his life, he maintained the belief that at some distant day in the future, all psychoanalytic processes could be tied to a neural basis: "We must recollect that all of our...