Where To Next?
Photo by Taylor Nicole Where to next? This question spurs my curiosity. Like explorers searching for new frontiers, the counseling and psychotherapy field is at a critical moment in its history. We have moved from narrative descriptions of client scenarios to...Volume 7 Issue 6 Reading Course
Where To Now? (1.5 hours) In this course you will learn: Where are we going next? From applied neuroscience to the broader science of you! (This course is for Standard subscribers only) NPT Volume 7 Issue 6 (1.5 hours)Module 1 Where To Now? Unit 1 Introduction Unit 2...Where To Now (Audio)
I introduced this feature in the Editorial, but perhaps it needs more description. This feature is comprised of the responses of 20 authors, all friends and colleagues, to a simple question – “Where To Now?” The motivation is partly because we are...Innovation in Psychotherapy, Challenges, and Opportunities: An Opinion Paper
Members PDF Download Members Text Only Members Audio Not a subscriber? Psychotherapy as a field tends toward conservativism, and the rate of innovation and development of new evidence-based effective treatments has been slow. This paper explores important...Innovation in Psychotherapy, Challenges, and Opportunities: An Opinion Paper (Audio)
Psychotherapy as a field tends toward conservativism, and the rate of innovation and development of new evidence-based effective treatments has been slow. The paper explores important barriers to innovation like the dodo bird verdict and the habit of starting the...Researchers Take A Step Towards Light-Based, Brain-Like Computing Chip
New light-based hardware which can store and process information in a similar way to the human brain.
SoP 35: Single Session and Brief Psychotherapy
We interview Flavio Cannistra from Rome about brief and single session therapy. Flavio Cannistra is a licensed psychologist and psychotherapist (PsyD). After five years at university, initially focusing on Jungian, he oriented his studies toward brief therapies....The Neuropsychotherapist Volume 7 Issue 6
Welcome to the beginning of something exciting for all of us at The Neuropsychotherapist. We are at a “phase shift”. You will have noticed that we have been quietly broadening our scope of articles and authors over the past 6 months or so to reflect the...Room for Thought: Brain Region That Watches for Walls Identified
Advanced imaging technologies observe one brain area’s ability to rapidly sense our surroundings; lays groundwork for improvements to machine learning and robotics.
Broccoli Sprout Compound May Restore Brain Chemistry Imbalance Linked to Schizophrenia
Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they’ve further characterized a set of chemical imbalances in the brains of people with schizophrenia.
SoP 34: Name Change!
Richard and Matt talk about changing names from The Neuropsychotherapist to The Science of Psychotherapy For many years our flagship magazine has been The Neuropsychotherapist and this has served us well. But we are finding that the science informing psychotherapy is...A Moody Gut Often Accompanies Depression—New Study Helps Explain Why
A new study suggests that depression and GI trouble sometimes spring from the same source — low serotonin — and identifies a potential treatment that could ease both conditions simultaneously.
Synthetic Speech Generated from Brain Recordings
Gopala Anumanchipalli, PhD, holding an example array of intracranial electrodes of the type used to record brain activity in the current study © UCSF New technology is a stepping stone to a neural speech prosthesis, researchers say. A state-of-the-art...How Blindness Shapes Sound Processing
Research uses functional MRI to identify two differences in the brains of blind individuals — differences that might be responsible for their abilities to make better use of auditory information.
SoP 33: Richard On Awareness & Possibility
Richard reports back from his recent trip to the USA and talks about awareness, possibilities and probabilities and what all this has to do with psychotherapy. Richard Hill, MA, MEd, MBMSc, is acknowledged internationally as an expert in human dynamics,...Be “session ready” for your most challenging clients
What if you could always be “session ready” with your most challenging clients using the latest cutting-edge information on treating trauma? This is why having access to the most current thinking on trauma is so critical. The final day to own the entire...How vitamin D affects the immune system
Scientists have uncovered fresh insights into how vitamin D affects the immune system and might influence susceptibility to diseases such as multiple sclerosis.
Flavio Cannistra
Members PDF Download Members Text Only Members Audio Where in the world are you based? I live close to Rome, Italy, but I am fortunate to work all around the Bel Paese. This is an affectionate term for Italy that simply means “beautiful country” and can be...Brain Marker for Angry Dreams
Researchers have identified a pattern of brain activity that predicts anger experienced during dreaming, according to a new study of healthy adults published in JNeurosci. The research could potentially inform efforts to understand the neural basis of the emotional content of nightmares, a feature of various mental and sleep disorders.
