Main description:

For many years psychotherapy and neuroscience have been estranged; existing on opposite ends of the spectrum concerned with the investigation of the mind. However in recent years, these two opposing schools of thought have found their paths converging so that now a mutually rewarding relationship is taking its first faltering steps towards greater

Contents:

Foreword -- Introduction -- The seventh annual John Bowlby Memorial Lecture -- Neuroscience and intrinsic psychodynamics: current knowledge and potential for therapy -- Psychotherapy in an age of neuroscience: bridges to affective neuroscience -- Early experience, attachment and the brain -- Emotion, false beliefs, and the neurobiology of intuition -- Psychotherapy and neuroscience: how close can they get? -- Constructing a psychobiological context-science, neuroscience, and therapeutic collaboration -- "At the border between chaos and order": what psychotherapy and neuroscience have in common