ABSTRACT
This chapter considers what might be taking place in a client's brain at the time they experience a breakthrough moment and in particular how the use of arts media might be contributing to this neural activity. The brain is a series of neurones and nerve cells organised into systems that are mostly interconnected by synapses. Young children often cannot moderate intense emotion as they do not yet have sufficiently matured neural pathways in their brains. The brain circuits responsible for interpersonal communication are surprisingly the same as the circuits that regulate modulation of emotion. The slow, gradual development of an individual's brain allows for the possibility of its being influenced by environmental factors. Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson explain that memory is not stored in the brain in categories such as years, people, events, and relationships, as many people typically believe, but rather that memory "is all about associations".
