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This book aims to build a bridge between the “psychosciences” (psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy) and the neurosciences. As shown, such bridging succeeds most easily in areas of perceptual and cognitive psychology, whereas in personality psychology, for example, neuroscience-based concepts are only gradually being applied. In the fields of psychiatry, a dualistic demarcation of the discipline as a “human science” from neurology understood as a natural science is still popular, which at the same time stands in remarkable contrast to an equally widespread belief in pharmacology. Even within psychotherapy, efforts to provide a neuroscientific foundation for the approaches advocated here have not yet progressed far. Psychoanalysis in particular has resisted “neurobiologization” for a very long time—much to its own detriment and contrary to the intentions of its founder, Sigmund Freud (see Roth and Strüber 2018). We hope that our book will help to build bridges across such divides.
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Heinz, A., Roth, G., Walter, H. (2023). Psychoneuroscience and Its Relevance for Practice. In: Roth, G., Heinz, A., Walter, H. (eds) Psychoneuroscience. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-65774-4_15
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