A glass you can drink from

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.