Neuropsychoanalytic Diagnosis ( Part 4 )

 As your therapist, when I begin to wonder about your neuropsychoanalytic diagnosis,  I look beneath your unpleasant  feeling/symptom to what is causing it. Neuropsychoanalysis believes your unpleasant feeling is caused by the failure to meet a  basic emotional need. In your case of major depression it is likely your attachment need ( PANIC/GRIEF) that is not being met. And the  failure to meet this need  is a result of your faulty, repressed unconscious prediction.  To assess this faulty prediction we begin to look at  your transference patterns--both to me as your therapist and your significant others. These transference patterns in the present lead  to inferences  about your early childhood experiences, and how those experiences have resulted  in the faulty prediction that is not working to  sufficiently meeting one of your  seven basic emotional needs/drives (id).  ( You will recall from previous posts these seven needs/drives are: FEAR, PANIC/GRIEF, CARE, RAGE, LUST, PLAY and SEEKING)     

                                         

1David Moore