Abstract
In the field of psychiatry, psychopathological and/or psychoanalytic studies (i.e. MIND studies) tend to be located in opposition to biological studies (i.e. BRAIN studies). Fortunately the author has been engaged in both MIND studies (especially psychoanalysis) and BRAIN studies (focusing on microglia, immune cells in the brain) at a university hospital for more than 10 years. In accordance with bilateral experience, he has come to consider that both the mind and the brain worlds must be located in a complementary relationship. For example, he has recently hypothesized unconscious drives including “life instincts” and “death drives” in the mind may be derived from microglial activation in the brain. To clarify such hypothesis, he is now trying to organize a translational research system (at his university) . He herein introduces the roadmap of his research especially aimed towards young psychiatrists with the hope that biology-based psychiatrists come to be interested in psychoanalysis and see the other side.
