CHAPTER 1 -- I CONSCIOUSNESS -- The Problem of Consciousness -- Neurobiology of Consciousness Models of Consciousness -- The Global Workspace Model -- The Dynamic Core Model -- Epilogue -- Conscious Perception -- The Embodied Mind -- Understanding the Human Brain by Studying Large Scale Networks -- Challenges -- II CLINICAL VIEW OF CONSCIOUSNESS -- Introduction -- The Pathophysiology of Reduced Consciousness -- The Construction of the Conscious Brain -- The Hierarchy of Consciousness -- When Consciousness Fades -- Anesthesia -- Minimally Conscious State -- Altered Consciousness in Neurological Disorders -- Disconnection and Neglect -- Epilepsy -- Narcolepsy -- Alzheimer's disease -- CHAPTER 2 -- I MEMORY -- Introduction -- Different Types of Memory -- The Dynamics of Memory Traces -- The Molecular Biology of Memory -- Neurogenesis: Links to Memory and Behavior -- II CLINICAL VIEW OF MEMORY -- The Memory Machinery -- Infantile Amnesia -- Mind, Time and Memory -- Mind and Time in Childhood and Adolescence -- Re-transcription of Memory -- Emotions and Memory -- Amnesias and Memory Disorders -- Transient Global Amnesia -- Chronic or Progressive Amnestic Disorders -- CHAPTER 3 -- I EMOTIONS -- Evolving Concept of the Limbic System -- Emotion and Behavior -- Emotional Systems -- The Role of the Frontal Lobe -- Social Emotion and Social Norm -- II THE DEVELOPMENT OF SELF -- Brain Development and the Self -- Psychological and Self - Development -- True and False Self -- Early Parent - Child Relationship -- Parenthood -- Early Relationship Disorders -- CHAPTER 4 -- I LANGUAGE -- The Evolutionary Origin of Language -- The Classical Language Regions -- The Language Network -- The Neural Basis of Speech Perception and Language -- Language Learning Disorders -- II COMMUNICATION -- Introduction -- Gestural Communication -- Social Interactions or Proto-Conversations -- Speech and Language -- III MUSIC -- Introduction -- Music and the Brain -- Music in Early Human Development -- The Emotional Power of Music -- CHAPTER 5 -- STRESS AND TRAUMA -- Stress and the Brain -- Neurobiological Responses to Stress -- Stress and Mental Disorders -- New Avenues for Treatment -- Psychic Trauma -- Concepts -- Psychic Trauma in Children -- Psychobiological Aspects -- Psychodynamic Aspects -- Symptoms and Phases of Psychic Trauma -- Familial Aspects -- Post-Traumatic Consequences -- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders -- Risk for Psychic Traumatization -- Children of Mentally or Somatically Ill Parents -- Psychotherapeutic Interventions -- Adoption -- CHAPTER 6 -- I PAIN AND MIND-BODY -- Introduction -- Pain Mechanisms and Functions -- The Affective Pain System -- Notes on Chronic Pain -- II SOMATIZATION - PSYCHOSOMATICS -- The Mind - Body Dilemma -- Psychosomatics -- Speaking Body, Speechless Mind -- Somatization in Children and Adolescents -- CHAPTER 7 -- RESILIENCE -- A Dynamic Concept -- Gene - Environment - Interactions -- Adoption -- Development -- Temperament -- Stress -- Depression -- Attachment -- Resilience promotion -- CHAPTER 8 -- GRIEF -- Introduction -- Prolonged Grief Disorder or Complicated Grief -- Grief in Children and Adolescents -- Pathological Grief and Secret -- Transgenerational Transmission of Traumatic Events -- Neurobiology of Grief and Depression -- New Treatments for Depression -- CHAPTER 9 -- DREAMS AND THE DREAMING BRAIN -- History -- The 24-Hour Brain -- Neurophysiology of Dreams -- Transition States of Sleep -- Functions of Dreams -- Lucid Dreaming -- Daydreaming -- Nightmares -- Music in Dreams -- Dream Work in Psychotherapy -- CHAPTER 10 -- NOTES TO PSYCHOTHERAPY -- Introduction -- Dialogue between Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience -- Transference and Intersubjective Relationship -- Interpretation / Intervention -- Psychoanalytical Therapy for Patients with Adverse Childhood Experiences -- Psychotherapy in Children and Adolescents -- Indication for Psychoanalytical Therapy -- Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy -- Play -- Psychoanalytical Therapeutic Group Psychodrama -- Psychopharmacological Treatment -- Narratives -- Introduction -- Narratives in Psychotherapy.