Contents

Editorial

The many faces of neuropsychoanalysis – from the classic theoretical oncepts of acting out and enactment to object relations and the motivational-energization aspects of brain injury

Iftah Biran, Daniela Flores Mosri and David Olds 

Target Article

Some implications of new developments in neurobiology for psychoanalytic object relations theory

Otto F. Kernberg

Commentaries

Consciousness, splitting, and the dynamic unconscious: Commentary on Kernberg

Simon Boag

Commentary on „Some Implications of New Developments in Neurobiology for Psychoanalytic Object Relations Theory“ by Otto Kernberg

Fredric N. Busch 

A revised top-down theory of the mind: Commentary on Otto Kernberg’s „Some Implications of New Developments in Neurobiology for Psychoanalytic Object Relations Theory“

Charles P. Fisher

Discussion of Otto Kernberg’s paper „Some Implications of New Developments in Neurobiology for Psychoanalytic Object Relations Theory“

Robert M. Galatzer-Levy 

Primacy of affects in human development: Discussion of Otto F. Kernberg’s „Some Implications of New Developments in Neurobiology for Psychoanalytic Object Relations Theory“

Leon Hoffman

The neuropsychology of yes and no

Luba Kessler and Richard J. Kessler

The promise of affective science to advance psychoanalytic object relations theory

Richard D. Lane 

Comments on Otto Kernberg’s „Some Implications of New Developments in Neurobiology for Psychoanalytic Object Relations Theory“

Nancy McWilliams 

Are object relations temporal? From the brain’s intrinsic neural timescale over temporo-spatial alignment to object relations

Georg Northoff

Drives dependent on neuronal systems in animal and human brains

Donald Pfaff

Commentary on Otto Kernberg’s „Some Implications of New Developments in Neurobiology for Psychoanalytic Object Relations Theory“

Larry S. Sandberg

Comment on „Some Implications of New Developments in Neurobiology for Psychoanalytic Object Relations Theory“ by Otto Kernberg

David Tuckett

Toward a „Project for a Scientific Psychoanalysis“: Commentary on Kernberg’s „Some Implications of New Developments in Neurobiology for Psychoanalytic Object Relations Theory“

Yoram Yovell

Original Articles

Acting out and enactment: An effort at clarity

Eric C. Bettelheim

SEEKING turns into will: Case report of the reconstruction of the self after a left medial fronta injury

Lisandro Vales and Daniela Flores Mosri

Society Proceedings 

Bulletin of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society

Maria Sonia Goergen

Book Reviews

Clinical Studies in Neuropsychoanalysis Revisited, edited by Christian Salas, Oliver Turnbull and Mark Solms

Hessel Boerboom

The Dynamic Self in Psychoanalysis: Neuroscientific Foundations and Clinical Cases by Rosa Spagnolo and Georg Northoff

Joshua Kellman