Neuroscience and Psychotherapy

An Affective Cognitive Neuroscience-Based Approach to PTSD Psychotherapy: The TARGET Model

Neurobiology and psychotherapy: an emerging dialogue

Purpose of review The paper outlines the beginning dialogue of neuroscience and psychotherapy by reviewing neurobiological research relevant for therapeutic concepts, presenting recent neuroimaging studies on psychotherapy effects, and discussing some conceptual problems. Recent findings Research into neuroplasticity, the role of explicit and implicit memory systems, early attachment processes,...

What Psychotherapists Can Begin to Learn from Neuroscience: Seven Principles of a Brain-based Psychotherapy

Advances in neuroscience provide guidance for the development of psychological conceptualizations of mental illness and treatment that go beyond a reductionistic biological etiology. The authors propose that these advances can be translated into practical clinical applications. Through the elaboration of 7 principles that can be helpful in using neuroscience to enhance clinical practice, this a...

تاثیر روان درمانی بر کارکرد و ساختار مغز

For many  years scientists have tried hard and spent a lot of research budget  in order to show the effect of medicine on brain , in the other hand  our knowledge about  how the psychotherapy works is nearly nothing. by considering the fact that psychotherapy has deep impression on emotion ,behavior and cognition  it is expecting that it Influences the brains function a...

Emerging and continuing trends in psychotherapy: views from an editor's eye.

It is proposed that six major trends in psychotherapy have continued or emerged over the course of the author's editorship of Psychotherapy, the past seven years. These trends are (a) the increasing integration of techniques and the therapeutic relationship; (b) increasing focus on theoretical integration; (c) increasing efforts at research-practice integration; (d) increases in more specific, ...