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Sunday, January 30, 2011

Eavesdropping on Eric Kandel & Charlie Rose: Psychotherapy as a Biological Interaction

Eric Kandel:  "One tended to think of psychotherapy and drugs as working in very different ways. One is talk therapy and the other is biological. And now it's clear, from Helen's (Dr. Helen Mayberg) studies and other people's studies, that psychotherapy works on the brain. It is a biological treatment."

Charlie Rose: "So the psychotherapy produces a biological change in the brain..."

EK: "Lie a biological treatment. When you and I have a conversation, it changes our brains. It's a biological interaction.... In addition, the value of psychotherapy, I"m going to say something that's a little bit provocative -- it's the therapy but it's also fundamentally the consistent, the supportive, and the healthy relationship the individual giving the psychotherapy provides..."

Eric Kandel & Charlie Rose: The Brain Series

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