A glass you can drink from

  • Thomas Lewis

Abstract

This paper explores a psychobiological model of psychotherapy. An emotion-centered history of the evolution of the brain is followed by a review of the basic psychobiology of emotion, attachment, and memory. Because human beings are social mammals, we regulate each orher's physiology and brain development through social contact. This process is likely to be causative not only in the generation of emotional pathology, but also in the therapeutic change that takes place in a successful psychotherapy. As neuroscience elucidates the nature of the brain, insight appears less important to emotional learning than the gradual alteration of intuition through the operation of implicit memory.

Author Biography

Thomas Lewis

As recorded in 2005.

Thomas Lewis, M.D., is an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, and a former associate director of the Affective Disorders Programme there. Dr Lewis currently divides his time between writing, private practice and teaching at the U.C.S.F. medical school. He lives in Sausalito, California.

Published
2005-09-30
How to Cite
Lewis, T. (2005). A glass you can drink from. Ata: Journal of Psychotherapy Aotearoa New Zealand, 11(1), 8-28. https://doi.org/10.9791/ajpanz.2005.02