More recent developments in neuroscience have intensified the interdisciplinary dialogue between psychoanalyses and neuroscience and have opened a new door to the world of science for the psychoanalysis. Five leading experts are exploring the opportunities and difficulties of this dialogue. They discuss scientific theoretical and methodical problems and explore, how the central concepts of the psychoanalysis can be developed further through an exchange with neuroscience.

Prof. Dr. phil. Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber& Tamara Fischmann, Sigmund Freud Institute (SFI), FrankfurtM. Prof. Dr. med. Heinz Böker, head physician at the psychiatric University clinic in Zurich.Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Georg Northoff, University of Ottawa/KanadaProf. Mark Solms, Ph.D., is professor in psychiatry at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.