Ansätze zu einer Neuropsychiatrie als Uberbrückung der Trennung von Neurologie und Psychiatrie.

Translated title of the contribution: Approaches to neuropsychiatry as a transition in the separation of neurology and psychiatry

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Abstract

The focus of the article is on the separation of neurology and psychiatry and their interconnection by means of the discipline of neuropsychiatry. First, the oppositions of "Structure versus Functions" and "Localization versus Holism" are worked out as the main reasons for the separation of neurology and psychiatry. This is followed by the demonstration of the recent developments of "biological psychiatry", "behavioral neurology" and "neuropsychology" which try to bridge the gulf between neurology and psychiatry. Their inadequacies with regard to a real bridge between the two disciplines, which takes account for both sides, is shown. Consecutively, a specific neuropsychiatric conception as a functional dynamic one, is suggested, which can be distinguished from the approaches in "biological psychiatry" and "behavioral neurology". This neuropsychiatric conception is applied, in a last step, to the oppositions of "Structure versus Function" and "Localization versus Holism", by means of which these oppositions, and the one between neurology and psychiatry, can be bridged--this is exemplified by means of the Parkinson-Syndrome with its neurologic and psychiatric symptoms.

Translated title of the contributionApproaches to neuropsychiatry as a transition in the separation of neurology and psychiatry
Original languageGerman
Pages (from-to)27-38
Number of pages12
JournalSchweizer Archiv fur Neurologie und Psychiatrie
Volume143
Issue number1
Publication statusPublished - 1992
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Clinical Neurology
  • Psychiatry and Mental health
  • Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology

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