Teodosio Giacolini, Psychologist, Clinical Supervisor and Docent in psychodynamic psychotherapy in Postgraduate School in Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry, Department of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Policlinico Umberto I-Sapienza University Hospital of Rome. Full member of Italian Psychoanalytical Society (SPI) and International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA). Member and Coordinator (together C.P.) of the regional group of The International Neuropsychoanalysis Association (NPSA). Author of books and papers in national and international journals.

Cristiana Pirrongelli, MD, Psychiatrist specialized in both basic and clinical research, author of national and international publications. She is a full member of Italian Psychoanalytic Association (SPI) and International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA). Since 2014, she has been teaching Ethics in Psychoanalysis and is part of the Deontological Board of SPI. Member and Coordinator (with T.G.) of the regional group of The International Neuropsychoanalysis Association (NPSA). Editor of SPIWEB (National Website of the Italian Psychoanalytic Association), Research and Neuroscience section.

Foreword Mark Solms

List of contributors

Part One: General aspects

1 Motivational/emotional systems: synoptic tables

Cristiana Pirrongelli, Chiara Di Maggio, Francesca Fioriello, Sara Riezzo, and Teodosio Giacolini

2 The evolutionary roots of Neuropsychoanalysis: the Instinct in Darwin and Freud

Teodosio Giacolini

3 John Bowlby: from attachment to affective neuroscience

Teodosio Giacolini

4 'What's left of sex': a critical review of psychosexuality in the light of neurobiological research and affective neuroscience

Amedeo Falci

5 Pornography, psychoanalysis and Affective Neuroscience

Claudia Spadazzi

6 Applied affective neuroscience and psychoanalytic practice

Francesco Castellet Y Ballara

Part Two: Clinical aspects

7 The usefulness of the endo-psycho-phenotypic approach in diagnosis and treatment from a neuropsychoanalytic perspective

Cristiana Pirrongelli

8 The experience of pleasure: a neuropsychoanalytic perspective

Lorenzo Moccia, Marianna Mazza, Luigi Janiri

9 Anedonia and emotional-motivational systems

Anatolia Salone

10 Motivational systems in child development: a neuropsychoanalytic perspective on disorders of attention and learning

Andrea Clarici, Andrea Zanettovich, Antonio Alcaro

11 The motivational trigger and the affective function in infantile dream

Claudio Colace

Index