The Neuroscience of Talking Therapies

The Neuroscience of Talking Therapies: Implications for Therapeutic Practice

Pieter Rossouw

 

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For many years, the role of counselling has been a central focus of scientific study and discourse, which has benefited significantly more in recent times from the unique insights of neurobiological research into the effect of enriched environments on the brain—environments such as structured talking and counselling therapy, for example. In fact, the positive effects of talking therapies—not only on behaviour, thought patterns, and feelings, but on neurochemical shifts, neural activity, and even neurostructural changes, as well—have been clearly demonstrated ever since Nobel laureate, Eric Kandel, proposed a new intellectual framework for psychiatry and psychotherapy. In this paper I set out the recent findings in neuroscience and explore how these findings may shape the future of talking therapies.

 

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