Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Part 1 Basic concepts
- Part 2 The process of psychotherapy
- 10 Introduction to neuroscience applications in psychotherapy
- 11 Intake and assessment
- 12 Neural networks in therapy
- 13 Affect in therapy
- 14 Memory and change
- 15 Anxiety and change
- 16 The experience of improvement in psychotherapy
- 17 The therapist's neuroscience
- 18 Communicating with clients through neuroscience
- 19 Integrating traditional therapies
- 20 Applying neuroscience to depression intervention
- 21 Neuroscience and psychotherapy: moving forward
- Appendix: Neuroimaging and psychological therapies
- References
- Index
19 - Integrating traditional therapies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Part 1 Basic concepts
- Part 2 The process of psychotherapy
- 10 Introduction to neuroscience applications in psychotherapy
- 11 Intake and assessment
- 12 Neural networks in therapy
- 13 Affect in therapy
- 14 Memory and change
- 15 Anxiety and change
- 16 The experience of improvement in psychotherapy
- 17 The therapist's neuroscience
- 18 Communicating with clients through neuroscience
- 19 Integrating traditional therapies
- 20 Applying neuroscience to depression intervention
- 21 Neuroscience and psychotherapy: moving forward
- Appendix: Neuroimaging and psychological therapies
- References
- Index
Summary
Beyond offering a free-standing framework for conducting therapy, brain functions and systems can provide a framework within which traditional therapies can be understood and integrated. Since all change in psychotherapy is hypothesized to be based on changes in the way the brain takes in, processes, and responds to information from the world around the individual, it makes sense that traditional models of psychotherapy can be considered in light of brain systems involved (Kandel, 1998). Knowledge of brain systems can help elucidate processes of therapy within each traditional model while also making clear how different models relate to each other. The result can be an integration of the strengths of the various traditional models. This integration can facilitate shifting from one treatment model to another in a seamless way, thereby supporting more effective overall intervention. At the same time, communication between therapists operating within the confines of different traditional models can be facilitated, offering another way in which treatment can be enhanced.
Psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive–behavioral, and Gestalt theories will be considered as examples during the present discussion. In addition, pharmacotherapy will also be discussed as a form of intervention. For current purposes, only selected elements of each school of intervention will be examined, since more complete analysis of connections between brain systems and the respective schools would be far more complex than the present venue permits.
Each psychotherapy theory can be considered within the neuroscience framework developed in previous chapters.
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- The Neuroscience of Psychological Therapies , pp. 153 - 170Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007