Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel deserves credit for exploring the previously uncharted territory of the relationships between neurobiology and psychoanalysis. Today, it is one of the most exciting and innovative fields of science. This collection of essays by Eric Kandel invites the reader on one of the most important, significant, and thrilling research journeys of our time—an exploration of how the human brain functions and the ways in which psychoanalysis and psychiatry can influence it. The volume, introduced by Gerhard Roth, a key figure in the German brain research debate, begins with a very personal introduction by Eric Kandel and provides a concise overview of this revolution in psychiatric research.