ABSTRACT
An exception to the idea that relating energy and conceptual operations is central to psychotherapy is the school of Cognitive Therapy. Cognitive Therapy works by remodelling the patient's invalid concepts, which can lead to depression, among other things. Despite the utility of Cognitive Therapy methods, the Cognitive School has some important deficiencies in the theoretical realm. Non-motivational causes include phenomena such as the Fundamental Attribution Error, also known as the Actor-Observer Difference. Any theory intending to explain the brain and mind must account explicitly for the dynamic, energetic aspects of bio-psychological systems. Motivational Theories including behaviourism and psychoanalysis both use the term drive for the energy component. The biology and psychology of the conscious and unconscious decisions about how to deploy attention have to be very complex. Because wilful efforts can be made in directing attention, attentional control is the key feature of any mind-brain regulatory system.
