title: Towards a second-person neuropsychiatry.
abstract: Psychiatric disorders can affect our ability to successfully and enjoyably interact with others. Conversely, having difficulties in social relations is known to increase the risk of developing a psychiatric disorder. In this article, the assumption that psychiatric disorders can be construed as disorders of social interaction is reviewed from a clinical point of view. Furthermore, it is argued that a psychiatrically motivated focus on the dynamics of social interaction may help to provide new perspectives for the field of social neuroscience. Such progress may be crucial to realize social neuroscience's translational potential and to advance the transdiagnostic investigation of the neurobiology of psychiatric disorders.
authors.affiliation: Independent Max Planck Research Group for Social Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Kraepelinstrasse 2-10, München-Schwabing 80804, Germany Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Cologne, Kerpener Strasse 62, Cologne 50924, Germany leonhard_schilbach@psych.mpg.de.
authors.forename: Leonhard
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Schilbach
mesh_terms: D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009042:Motivation; D058027:Neuropsychiatry; D009488:Neurosciences; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D012201:Reward; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D056345:Theory of Mind
keywords: neural mechanisms; psychiatric disorders; social interaction