bio-psycho-social approach: an approach, which directs in advice, in further education, in therapy and education the research results of biology, of brain research particularly neurobiology of psychology and of the social sciences.

Emotions, affect, feeling: the word "emotion" emphasizes - by its latin root: "movere" (move)- the aspect to be moved or/and deeply moved. The word "affect" - by its latin root "afficere" (put on, touch) - means the same as emotion. Everyday language designates the word "affect" as a strong, violent emotion (e.g. fear-cry) released by a strong, violent attraction. The term feeling is in contrast to the word affect a weaker form of emotion which is obvious to thinking, reminding, speaking. The weaker form makes it possible to reflect emotions and to speak about emotions.
Emotions, affects, feelings are not a dispensable luxury. They are important to the adjustment performances in private and professional weekday life and belong inseparably to the mechanisms of the life mastering. Pleasant and unpleasant emotions, affects, and feelings are intended to repel threats and to look for sources of energy and protection.

Intelligence: the word intelligence has its root in the Latin verb "intellegere;" (legere = select; inter = between) and means the ability to select between different available possibilities and/or alternatives. Accordingly the word "intelligence" in its original meaning designates the different available possibilities or options for selection. The intelligence is high in many available choices and the intelligence is low in few available choices.

Mental intelligence: at first the word intelligence was only related to the intellectual area (IQ). It describes the different available possibilities for a person to understand mentally different people, tasks, situations, events and to make decisions, to develop and to realize concepts.

Emotional intelligence: in more recent research the term intelligence is also related to the emotional area (EQ). Here intelligence indicates the different available possibilities of an individual to understand, to differentiate and to evaluate emotionally different people, things, situations and events. Related to the emotions the term intelligence also designates the different available emotional possibilities of a person to influence thought and actions.

Social intelligence: it is also possible to talk about social intelligence (SQ). The word intelligence then means the different available intellectual and emotional possibilities of a person to understand, to form, to maintain relations with other persons, groups and communities while retaining personal integrity.

Brain research: is an interdisciplinary field of neurosciences which includes disciplines such as neurobiology, neurochemic, electric physiology, neuroanatomy... The research is concerned with the development and functional modes of the central nervous system (ZNS), that is the brain and the spinal cord.

Psychoanalysis: is both a theory and therapy, going back on Sigmund Freud. It argues with the effects of unconscious conflicts on feeling, thinking and behaviour. The treatment tries to make (in the contact between client and psychoanalyst) the conflict-causing unconscious experiences conscious. It then attempts using systematic intervention to find a solution for unconscious conflicts and to develop new feeling, thinking and behaviour patterns in the contact with persons, groups, things, tasks.

Neuropsychoanalysis: An interdisciplinary working group arose due to the initiative of the psychoanalyst Arnold Pfeffer and neuroscientist James Schwarz at the beginning of the nineties of the last century. The success of this group led to the formation of numerous similar groups and finally to the foundation of "n-psa The Neuro-Psychoanalysis Society". The aim of interdisciplinary cooperation is the discussion, examination and the common advancement of both research directions.

Sociotherapy: The development and stability of individuals is dependent on social relationships. Relationship experiences can stabilise or destabilise the feeling, thinking and behavioural patterns. The strengthening of individuals (if necessary by psychotherapy) therefore requires sociotherapeutic interventions. The aim of the sociotherapeutic interventions is to stabilise the individuals by the construction of emotional relations which correspond to the principals of the brain operations and to healthy brain activity.