What is Neuropsychoanalysis?

SCIENCE IS UNITING…

When we look at ancient belief systems and ancient philosophy, we can see that humankind always searched for a meaning in both material and spiritual dimensions and tried to conceive the relationship between “psyche” and “matter”. As experiences and knowledge accumulated in line with this search, the data -that humankind gathered, tested, examined and wanted to control- started to get organized under the names: “culture” and “science”, and get transmitted through generations via family and institutional education. Wıthin this databank that is continuously growing during transmission, the concrete and abstract data splitted by time and formed groups. The division of daily science in academic sphere as “Natural Sciences” and “Social Sciences” is a reflection of this splitting.

As humankind is percieved via these two perspectives, “Neuroscience” accumulating the findings related to human brain on one hand, and “Psychology” accumulating the findings related to human mind on the other hand, developed and grew. The splitting among these two sciences showed an intense increase especially during the past century, so that, time to time it lead to the recipriocal devaluation and denial of the counterpart with a narcissistic style.

At the end of this phase which can be named as “Splitted Science”, certain disciplines functioning as bridges started to rise up; neuro-psychiatry from one side and neuro-psychology from the other side. By time, the names of these subdisciplines became based on stems more than one; like social psychiatry and biological psychology and may be in the future “psychosocial neuropsychiatry” !

All this verbal crowd is due to the data bank’s effort of uniting and the parts’ need of embracing eachother. The coming together of each formation that was once divided and the successive division of the following new form- in order to grow- may be the most amazing side of universal principles…

NEUROSCIENCE AND PSYCHOANALYSIS MAKING PEACE…

Recently, in line with the need to unite the data bank related to the humankind, a bridge between neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis has been built at the onset of this century: Neuropsychoanalysis.

The main aim of this approach is to synthesize the Freudian theory that influenced the science of psychology immensely and the following psychodynamic theories and the findings of the science of neurology till the times of Kraepelin. In other words, tto provide a peace between mind and body and to focus on wholeness rather that dualıty. This is a field of study which may function like a therapy for “Splıtted Scıence” and enable the passage to the phase of “Whole Science”.

Neuropsychoanalysis serves like a translation between two individuals speaking about the same subject with different languages. In a way, a dictionary “neuroscience to psychoanalysis and psychoanalysis to neuroscience” is being prepared.

Neuropsychoanalysis, investigating the body-mind relationship with the help of modern scientific techniques, is a fresh discipline that will have a great impact on science in this century!

“Psychoanalysis is still the most coherent and intellectually satisfying view of the mind”
Eric Kandel, 2000 Nobel Laureate in Physiology and Medicine