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This workshop will highlight the application of brain science within the psychotherapeutic hour. By recognizing, understanding and utilizing the neurobiological dimension of the patient's experience, the therapist maximizes the potential to desensitize and disrupt the dynamic forces that impede recovery; thereby enabling, once again, the natural and healing convergence of multidimensional pathways to unfold. It would be proposed that the mind is a subjective, dynamic process that has its' origins within distinctly physiological processes and whose interaction with the environment plays a pivotal role in its developmental trajectory. Consequently, if difficulties with affect regulation precipitate many patients to seek psychotherapy, and if these affects are viewed as emerging from a neurobiologic substrate of experience; and further, if modulation of affect regulation, first through the dyadic therapeutic relationship and second via patient self-regulation of affect is a therapeutic goal, then it would seem to make sense to look to that part of the brain that is involved with self-regulation; and on a deeper level of analysis, to look to how neurobiological processes and the intersubjective nature of interpersonal relationships mutually influence each other; producing at times optimal and dysfunctional self-regulation. Again, this workshop will highlight the application of brain science within the psychotherapeutic hour within a framework of treatment that facilitates the convergence of neurobiologic, intrapsychic, interpersonal, and transpersonal dimensions of the client's experience.
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