ABSTRACT
A number of recent advances in social neuroscience potentially offer a new interface with relationship-based therapies and may, in particular, offer new insights into the mechanisms of therapeutic action for such therapies. While traditionally seen as very different domains of discourse with little to no common ground, in the last decade, many cognitive neuroscientists have turned to complex questions formerly considered outside the purview of experimental modelling. Empathy, affiliation, desire, remembering and memory are among the more complex states of mind that are being considered and modelled using contemporary neuroscience methods.
