ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with some brief general remarks on the consistent societal resonance, or pulling power over time, of scientific method, linking it with some systemic implications for psychotherapeutic practice during periods of multi-modal/ interdisciplinary collaboration or cross-fertilization. It presents a pragmatic discussion about some of the experiential consequences of taking a neuroscientific perspective in psychotherapy by way of a specific focus on events in a therapeutic alliance with a traumatized, severely self-harming, adolescent girl. The chapter suggests that psychotherapists should ‘‘make haste slowly’’ in incorporating it into their practice. It discusses analysis and openly cherry-picks certain neuroaffective findings to propose that their subjective deployment can be of assistance in understanding complex and disturbing material. The reattachment of neuroscience to psychotherapy is, therefore, having a profound paradigmatic effect on the practices and beliefs of psychotherapists. So of course it is important to keep abreast of the details involved in this process.
