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Psychotherapists have an ambivalent relationship with neuroscience. Demonstrating brain changes following successful therapy lends authority and validation to our work, but the latter-day phrenology of fMRI scanners and the amygdala seems many miles from the everyday realities of the consulting room. In this workshop, Jeremy shall expound a new dynamic model of brain function, the Free Energy Principle (FEP), developed by mathematical psychiatrist Karl Friston that has excited huge interest in the world if neuroscience and artificial intelligence research, but thus far has had little impact in psychiatry, psychology or psychotherapy. It will be shown that FEP helps explain the ways in which therapy brings about change — both in CBT through encouraging agency and action, and in dynamic therapies through explicating the role of free association, dream work and transference analysis. As an attachment theory enthusiast, Jeremy will also bring an attachment perspective. Clinically, Jeremy will also link FEP with Mentalisation Based Therapy (MBT) for personality disorders. The workshop, which is arguably of interest to all open-minded 21st Century therapists, will fall into four sessions. In the first session, the origins and main features of FEP will be described, and in the second session it will be linked with the established techniques of psychotherapy.
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