Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I: Conceptual Equipment
1: Transcendental Approach to the Brain
2: Unknowability and the Concept of the Brain
3: Neuropsychodynamic Iterativity as Transdisciplinary Methodology
Part II: Neural Equipment
4: Cathexis and the Energy of the Brain
5: Cathexis, Neural Coding and Mental States
6: Defense Mechanisms and Brain-Object and Brain-Self Differentiation
Part III: Mental Equipment
7: Narcissism and Self-objects as Universal Features of Human Existence and its Brain
8: Unconsciousness and the brain
9: The Self and its Brain
Part IV: Disordered Equipment
10: Depression and the Brain
11: Psychosis I: Psychodynamics and Phenomenology
12: Psychosis II : Neuropsychodynamic Hypotheses
Epilogue: The Beauty of Transdisciplinary Failure

About the Author

Georg Northoff is a neuroscientist, psychiatrists and philosopher holding degrees in all three fields. Being an endowed chair at the University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research/Canada, he is well known and internationally recognized as one of the leading proponents of interdisciplinary work at the intersection between neuroscience, psychiatry and philosophy. His empirical work focuses on brain imaging of the self while his more theoretical work aims to
develop the disciplines of neuropsychoanalysis and neurophilosophy. He published several academic books and papers in the leading neuroscientific, psychiatric and philosophical journals. His most
recent book The search for the Ego. A neurophilosophical mystery novel (Random House Germany) crosses the academic boundaries by addressing a wider audience.

Reviews

Especially because of its transdisciplinary approach, the book will become most likely a standard for any future neuropsychoanalysis.. The book shall be recommended to all who search for a critical approach to neuropsychoanalysis and its neuroscientific, neurophilosophical, and clinical foundations. The book opens a novel transdisciplinary scope in a systematic way. The actuality of Freud's structure- and mechanism-based approach in a neuroscientific perspective.
*PSYCH, Jan 2013*