In this second part the origins of Freudian psychoanalysis in neuropsychiatry is discussed, but also its ties with the pre-scientific ‘Naturphilosophie’. The alienistic psychiatry was deeply influenced by psychodynamic theories.
Biological psychiatry has more intellectual ties with psychodynamic psychiatry than with the old academic neuropsychiatry. Behavioral neurology is to be considered as a revival of the old academic neuropsychiatry.