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All three panelists addressed the relations between brain and mind. Maurice Green defined his theme as interpersonal psychobiology. He presented new data concerning the neurophysiological substrate of the processes of arousal, attention, and intentionality. This neurochemical substrate, that is, the various substances acting as neurochemical transmitters, were referred to by the acronym TROPHIC BASE, which were in turn correlated with the corresponding structure in the central nervous system. Green also sought to build bridges between matters of concern to psychoanalysts (dream psychology, unconscious and conscious motivation of conflict, the psychobiologic matrix between mother and infant, and treatment of the psychoses) with concepts derived from experiences with disorder of attention, EEG, and other brain functions.
Klaus Hoppe sought to build bridges between the neurosciences and spirituality. His central spiritual assumption is that there exists a legitimate cosmic conception of God, or God representation, that transcends a narrow and limited conception stemming from pathological structures of the personality, such as grandiose illusion, or a master-slave seesaw relationship, with a punitive conscience, shame and guilt, and submissive and dependent clinging in relation to the other and to the deity. Against such pathological representations and attitudes, Hoppe invoked