The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy - Professor Oliver Turnbull, PhD
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- Опубликовано: 14 июн 2024
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This lecture surveys the parts of the brain-mind that are at the heart of psychotherapy. It begins with a brief survey of the basic emotion systems, including their anatomy and chemistry. Examples include the separation between ‘wanting’ and ‘liking’, a distinction which can be very helpful clinically. This literature also suggests that these emotion systems are ‘ancient’ (in evolutionary terms), that they are based on a wide range of subcortical brain regions, and that they appear to be evolutionarily conserved - certainly across mammals (and probably other vertebrate species). The literature also suggests the role of these emotion systems in recreational drug use, and in the pharmacotherapies that are at the heart of organic psychiatry.
These findings therefore bring together several elements of the neuroscience of mental health, in a way which is scientifically very satisfying, and suggests genuine progress in the field.
Finally, the lecture focuses on the neuropsychology of emotion regulation, showing which brain areas are responsible for skills that underpin psychotherapy. This includes key therapeutic abilities such as reappraisal and response modulation, and also the role of emotion in decision-making and delusional beliefs. Notably, these findings allow us to investigate the way that therapeutic experience and outcome are altered (or not) after brain injury, suggesting that a genuine ‘neuroscience of psychotherapy’ is within our grasp: an inter-discipline which has important clinical implications for how we design and implement treatment.
Professor Turnbull is a neuropsychologist, with an interest in emotion and its many consequences for mental life. He is also a clinician, whose work is with patients with neurological lesions, especially those who have suffered cerebro-vascular accident (stroke) and traumatic brain injury.
He is the author of roughly 150 publications on these topics, and (together with Mark Solms) is the co-author of the popular science book ‘The Brain and the Inner World’, which has been translated into 11 languages. For many years, he was the Editor of the interdisciplinary journal Neuropsychoanalysis, and Secretary of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society.
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Emotions come and go, people suffer from ideas. Ideas of being subject to suffering, of not fulfilling an ideal, of being persecuted, unwanted, of having caused pain to others or themselves, of life being finite, of happiness passing them by, etc, etc etc. Each of these is a CONSCIOUS IDEA (albeit at times vaguely understood, clumsily expressed, etc, etc.).
Thank you for the lecture. I am in the process of applying to Bangor University and I would be thrilled to be taught by Professor Turnbull!
Gosh, I love this stuff.... I think i'll definitely do a post grad in cognitive neuroscience
Superb lecture!
Great info.
He's conflated "mind" with emotion and as such misrepresented Skinner's ideas (and "mind" as a concept in general). Though I would support, wholeheartedly, his condemnation of Skinner's denial of emotion.
56:00 Reframing is important, yes. A great therapeutic tool! For example, "I was molested by my uncle when I was 6 and I became a crack whore -- but at least he didn't molest anyone else in my family!"
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13:40 This is idiotic. Circular reasoning:
self-reported complaints, parsed through questionnaires ALREADY IMPLYING SYMPTOMS show high levels of complaints aligning with symptom structure imbedded into the questionnaire.
Well, woopty doo. That's scientists sciencing at the highest level.