TY - JOUR
T1 - Neuroscience-based psychotherapy: A position paper
AU - Cammisuli, D. M.
AU - Castelnuovo, Gianluca
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - In the recent years, discoveries in neuroscience have greatly impacted upon the need to modify therapeutic practice starting from the evidence showing some cerebral mechanisms capable of coping with mental health crisis and traumatic events of the individual's life history by redesigning the narrative plot and the person's sense of the Self. The emerging dialogue between neuroscience and psychotherapy is increasingly intense and modern psychotherapy cannot ignore the heritage deriving from studies about neuropsychological modification of memory traces, neurobiology of attachment theory, cognitive mechanisms involved in psychopathology, neurophysiology of human empathy, neuroimaging evidence about psychotherapeutic treatment, and somatoform disorders connecting the brain and the body. In the present article, we critically examined sectorial literature and claimed that psychotherapy has to referred to a neuroscience-based approach in order to adopt the most tailored interventions for specific groups of patients or therapy settings. We also provided recommendations for care implementation in clinical practice and illustrated challenges of future research.
AB - In the recent years, discoveries in neuroscience have greatly impacted upon the need to modify therapeutic practice starting from the evidence showing some cerebral mechanisms capable of coping with mental health crisis and traumatic events of the individual's life history by redesigning the narrative plot and the person's sense of the Self. The emerging dialogue between neuroscience and psychotherapy is increasingly intense and modern psychotherapy cannot ignore the heritage deriving from studies about neuropsychological modification of memory traces, neurobiology of attachment theory, cognitive mechanisms involved in psychopathology, neurophysiology of human empathy, neuroimaging evidence about psychotherapeutic treatment, and somatoform disorders connecting the brain and the body. In the present article, we critically examined sectorial literature and claimed that psychotherapy has to referred to a neuroscience-based approach in order to adopt the most tailored interventions for specific groups of patients or therapy settings. We also provided recommendations for care implementation in clinical practice and illustrated challenges of future research.
KW - attachment theory
KW - cognitive psychopathology
KW - empathy
KW - neuroimaging
KW - neuroscience
KW - psychotherapy
KW - somatoform disorders
KW - traumatic memories
KW - attachment theory
KW - cognitive psychopathology
KW - empathy
KW - neuroimaging
KW - neuroscience
KW - psychotherapy
KW - somatoform disorders
KW - traumatic memories
UR - https://publicatt.unicatt.it/handle/10807/230868
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U2 - 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1101044
DO - 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1101044
M3 - Article
SN - 1664-1078
VL - 14
SP - 1
EP - 13
JO - Frontiers in Psychology
JF - Frontiers in Psychology
IS - N/A
ER -