The EQ-SQ NPS deals with the significance of the emotional and social intelligence for the development and the stability of adults, adolescents and children with respect to the brain research, psychoanalysis and the recent science direction of neuropsychoanalysis. From these researchs directions the most important criteria for EQ and SQ are derived and corresponding methods for the support or therapy are developed.

The objective perspective of the brain research and the experience - dependent subjective perspective of psychoanalysis offer a solid base for the concept of the sociotherapy which focuses on solutions for relation and development problems of adults, adolescents and children and has been created for persons having psychosocial disturbances and psychic illnesses.

The sociotherapeutical concept on hand has been developed and is practiced by Alois Heinemann PhD since 1980 in the "Institute for Applied Socialpsychology”. In the beginning the development was mainly influenced by the theory and practice of the psychoanalysis. It has been confirmed and enriched by the brain research as well as the neuropsychoanalytic research and has got a bio-psycho-social perspective.

The theory and practice of EQ-SQ NPS has been greatly influenced by the research results of John Bowlby, Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, Daniel Stern (psychoanalysis); Lise Eliot, Antonio R. Damasio, Gerald Hüther, Eric Kandel, Gerhard Roth (brain research); Mark Solms, Oliver Turnbull (neuropsychoanalysis); Luc Ciompi (medicine/social psychiatry), Karin and Karl Grossmann (psychology/attachment research); Reinhard Pekrun (personalitiy-psychology), Günther Schiepek (psychology/synergetic); Hermann Haken (physics/synergetic); Walter Schulz (philosophy); Karl Popper (philosophy/science theory).