Psychobiology and Cognitive Therapy of the Neuroses

The psychobiology of Hans Lungwitz describes "mental" processes as physical functions of neural structures in the brain. It shows that thought and experience are exactly coincident with brain function and reflex behaviour, and puts its holist biological view of the human being in the place of metaphysical-psychological and causal mechanistic interpretations. The psychobiological theory of neuroses formulates the concept of biological development to explain the functional disturbance of experience and behaviour. With cognitive therapy, psychobiology constitute a method of treatment which is intended to overcome the divisions into divergent schools of psychoterapy by communication of biological thinking. In this context, it proves to be both original and helpful throughout the wide spectrum ranging from psychoanalysis to behavioural therapy. This work is a systematically comprehensive self-contained monograph on psychobiology and cognitive therapy of neuroses. Combining theory and practice, it incorporates the fundamental insights deriving from theory of science in the text, and illustrates practical applications by examples of cases. Numerous forms of neurosis are described and rendered comprehensible and accessible to therapy.