The neuroscience of talking therapies: implications for therapeutic practice

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Neurobiological research has provided a unique insight into structured talking - counselling/therapy - in affecting the brain. Neurobiological research demonstrated the effect of talking therapies not only on behavioural change, thinking patterns or feelings but on neurochemical shifts, neural activity and even neurostructural changes. This paper explores recent findings in neuroscience and how these findings may shape the future of talking therapies. Neurobiological findings have generated a number of new perspectives regarding the therapeutic process, including: the emerging paradigm in understanding neural functioning; the role of mirror neuron systems on the effects of counselling; the role of right brain to right brain activation linked with attachment; and control patterns to facilitate change. These perspectives have profound implications for talking therapies. Implications of these findings will be explored and how Counselling has become a central catalyst for effective therape

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