Neuropsychoanalytic Diagnosis ( Versus DSM Diagnosis, Part 1 )

 I have written earlier ( see my Introductory Lectures on Neuropsychoanalysis here on my Blog)  about neuropsychoanalytic theory and treatment.   To follow up on those Lectures, I wish now to write about neuropsychoanalytic diagnosis. The neuropsychoanalyst  and creator of neuropsychoanalysis , Mark Solms, says, we cannot know how to help someone get better if we do not know what has gone wrong in their lives in the first place. This is the process of diagnosis..........Neuropsychoanalytic diagnosis is similar in some ways to DSM (the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) diagnosis. We listen, observe, interview, get to know the patient in depth, rule out various diagnoses, and finally arrive at what is going wrong in their lives that needs to change in order for them to   e healthy.  Much of the beginning phase of therapy is about coming up with the correct diagnosis......In these next few posts I am going to write about how neuropsychoanalytic diagnosis starts out similarly to DSM diagnosis. But stick around until the end of this series of posts where I will write  about how different the two are as well!

8Loyd Allen, Christie Melton Kearney and 6 others

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