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Oxford University Press

Neuropsychoanalysis in practice

Georg Northoff: Brain, Self and Objects

448 pages, 246x171mm, 978-0-19-959969-1, Hardback, June 2011 (estimated)

Unique in bringing together three often remote disciplines - neuroscience, psychoanalysis, and philosophy, describing how neuronal states become psychological states
Shows how this knowledge can be applied to our understanding of psychiatric illnesses such as depressions and schizophrenia
There is growing interest in the field of neuropsychoanalysis - but up till now, there have very few books dealing with this topic

You can find more information about the book on the website from Oxford University Press

Georg Northoff: Die Fahndung nach dem Ich. Eine neurophilosophische Fahndungsgeschichte

Irisiana, October 2009, 288 p, german

ISBN: 978-3-424-15034-6

For more information (extract in German) please click here

See the positive reviews on amazon here (in German)

Prospectively appearing in English as "The Search Warrent for the Ego. A Neurophilosophical Mystery Novel".

Publisher's information:

About the book:

Does an EGO, a self, exist? Is it the EGO that first gives us a soul? Is there such a thing as free will? The neuroscientist and philosopher Georg Northoff is in pursuit of the answers to precisely these questions. Woven into a criminological framework, he issues a search warrant for the EGO, sending out two detectives, a brain researcher and a philosopher, to solve the case. The scene of the crime is clear from the start: the human brain. This leads to further questions - namely, whether religious faith can be associated with specific activities in the brain, or how our self is to be seen in the context of emotions. In an entertaining fashion, and yet substantiated, the newest discoveries of brain research are presented and philosophically examined. This particular exchange of perspectives makes it possible finally to break through the rigid boundaries hampering the current discussion between Philosophy and Neuroscience.

About the author:

Prof. M.D. and Ph.D. Georg Northoff studied Medicine and Philosophy in Hamburg, Essen, Bochum and New York. He was a Professor of Neuropsychiatry and Neurophilosophy and the Director of the Laboratory for Imaging and Neurophilosophy at the Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg. Since the middle of 2009, he has been occupying a chair created especially for him for Mind, Brain and Neuroethics at the University of Ottawa in Canada.

In his work, he studies, among other things, emotions and the self by means of functional imaging, dedicating himself to the analytical philosophy of the mind and investigating psychiatric ailments from a neurobiological perspective. Georg Northoff’s goal is to establish neurophilosophy as an separate discipline, independent from philosophy and brain research.

Georg Northoff: Philosophy of the Brain. Advances in Consciousness Research

John Benjamins Publishing Co, February 2004, 391 p, English
ISBN-10: 1588114163
ISBN-13: 978-1588114167

Georg Northoff: Personale Identität und operative Eingriffe in das Gehirn

Mentis-Verlag, 2001, 503 p, German
ISBN-10: 3897850974
ISBN-13: 978-3897850972

Georg Northoff: Das Gehirn. Eine neurophilosophische Bestandsaufnahme

Mentis-Verlag, Januar 2000, 193 p, German
ISBN-10: 3897850966
ISBN-13: 978-3897850965

Georg Northoff: Katatonie

Einführung in die Phänomenologie, Klinik und Pathophysiologie eines psychomotorischen Syndroms

Ferdinand Enke Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, 78 p, German

ISBN 3-432-29811-0

Georg Northoff: Neuropsychiatrie und Neurophilosophie

Mentis-Verlag, 1997, 226 p, German
ISBN-10: 3897850176
ISBN-13: 978-3897850170