ReviewFrontiers in human neuroscience2022
Inter-brain plasticity as a biological mechanism of change in psychotherapy: A review and integrative model.
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- Embodied simulation, body language, and symbolization: understanding somatic symptoms in psychoanalysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Minding the moving self: the centrality of body movement in the neurodynamics of the self and psychotherapeutic implications.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Review
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- Now is the time: operationalizing generative neurophenomenology through interpersonal methods.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2025Article
- Boosting Psychotherapy With Noninvasive Brain Stimulation: The Whys and Wherefores of Modulating Neural Plasticity to Promote Therapeutic Change.Neural plasticity · 2024Review
- Meeting the multidimensional self: fostering selfhood at the interface of Creative Arts Therapies and neuroscience.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
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Abstract
Recent models of psychopathology and psychotherapy highlight the importance of interpersonal factors. The current review offers a biological perspective on these interpersonal processes by examining inter-brain synchrony-the coupling of brain activity between people interacting with one another. High inter-brain synchrony is associated with better relationships in therapy and in daily life, while deficits in the ability to achieve inter-brain synchrony are associated with a variety of psychological and developmental disorders. The review suggests that therapy improves patients' ability to achieve such synchrony through inter-brain plasticity-a process by which recurring exposure to high inter-brain synchrony leads to lasting change in a person's overall ability to synchronize. Therapeutic sessions provide repeated situations with high inter-brain synchrony. This can lead to a long-term increase in the ability to synchronize, first with the therapist, then generalized to other interpersonal relationships, ultimately leading to symptom reduction. The proposed inter-brain plasticity model offers a novel biological framework for understanding relational change in psychotherapy and its links to various forms of psychopathology and provides testable hypotheses for future research. Understanding this mechanism may help improve existing psychotherapy methods and develop new ones.
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