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Early Integrative and Communicative Development: Pointers to Humanity

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Integrative Biological Psychiatry

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Complex interrelationships between the human brain and behavioral correlates have obliged research psychiatrists to seek interdisciplinary cooperation in attempts to define mental health and detect pathways of mental disorders. Comparative and developmental approaches have proven particularly profitable for several good reasons:

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    Progress in research on a neuronal base remains fruitless unless its involvement in behavioral regulation can be manifested.

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    The use of experimental animals and the search for animal models of human behavior have necessitated a thorough knowledge of similarities and dissimilarities between human and animal organisms.

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    Speculations on the critical significance of infantile experience for later mental health have been contrasted by a lack of detailed understanding of the needs and supportive interventions that might specifically operate on infant mental development.

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    Social interactions between infants and caretakers have long been disregarded in both etiopathogenetic and therapeutic concepts in psychiatry and have only vaguely been conceptualized as matters of mere emotional bonding.

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  1. Max-Planck-Institut für Psychiatrie, Kraepelinstraße 10, W-8000, München 40, Germany

    Hinderk M. Emrich

  2. Psychiatrische Klinik der Technischen Universität, Ismaninger Straße 22, W-8000, München 80, Germany

    Michael Wiegand

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Papoušek, H., Papoušek, M. (1992). Early Integrative and Communicative Development: Pointers to Humanity. In: Emrich, H.M., Wiegand, M. (eds) Integrative Biological Psychiatry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77168-2_3

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