ABSTRACT
Recent advances in neurobiology suggest that, similarly to drugs, psychotherapy changes brain circuits. Therapeutic effects of both drugs and psychotherapy are thought to occur in psychiatric disorders by improving the efficiency of information processing in malfunctioning brain circuits. As clinically effective treatments for psychiatric disorders, psychotherapy and psychopharmacology in combination can be therapeutically synergistic in several psychiatric conditions. Psychotherapy hypothetically induces epigenetic changes in brain circuits, enhancing the efficiency of information processing in malfunctioning neurons, and improving psychiatric symptoms, just like drugs (Stahl, 2012).
