ABSTRACT
The task of neuropsychotherapy research would then be to determine which kinds of events a patient must experience in order for the desired brain changes to follow. The task of the neuropsychotherapist, ultimately, would be to ensure that such theoretically needed experiences become concrete patient reality. Neuroscientists and psychotherapists live in separate worlds that are quite removed from one another. It has only been a short time since they began to develop any degree of mutual interest. An area that could be a natural bridge, however, is their common interest in mental disorders. Psychotherapists have become much more interested in neuroscience. Probably because they suspect that neuroscience might improve their domain-specific expertise. The boundary between neuroscience and cognitive science is fuzzy and ultimately arbitrary. It is not a natural boundary of subdisciplines but is indeed based on a lack of knowledge. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
