Neuropsychological equivalences and therapeutic consequences of the dynamic structural model

Abstract

Firstly the core concepts of the dynamic structural model and the methods from which the model was developed will be discussed. These core concepts include concepts of personality structure and affect dynamic, of dynamic affective derailment with dissociation of individual element structures, the capacity of disactualisation of unwanted mental content, and autopraxis as the basis of memory renewals, which are formed and channelled through selection. Furthermore we will consider the dependence of memory function on texturing, development of coherence, affective freighting and repetition of usage in Janzarik's system. Neuropsychological counterparts are to be found in experimental studies on filter, gating and control functions, in studies on automatic vs. controlled processes, the central executive and executive control function. Autopraxis and priming operations will be related to each other. Furthermore, the connection of neuronal plasticity to a raised signal-to-noise ratio and the relationship to extinction of delusional content through broadening of new fields of experience will be discussed. In a summary of the frappant parallels of experimental and clinical viewpoints of Janzarik's model we will show the therapeutic perspective and the psychotherapeutically important integration of the lifeworld of the patient with experimentally investigated neuropsychological functions through Janzarik's conceptualisation.