The Psychotherapies in the Context of New Developments in the Neurosciences and Biological Psychiatry

Abstract

We are in an era when the common denominators accounting for the major favorable effects of the different psychotherapies merit further clarification. At the same time, definite progress has been made in determining those specific psychotherapeutic techniques and methods that produce the desired results most efficiently with particular types of patients with specific types of problems. Continuing psychotherapy research will be required, and such research will need to be linked and co-ordinated with the new scientific progress being made in biological psychiatry and the neurosciences.