Symposium: Toward A Neuroscience of Change Processes in Psychotherapy: What Does Psychotherapy Do and How Does It Do It?

Lunch 11:30am; Symposia Noon- 5:30pm; Reception 5:30-6:30pmRegister here: https://dibs.duke.edu/events/toward-neuroscience-change-processes-psychotherapy-what-does-psychotherapy-do-and-how-does-itNB: Registration will be capped at 130 and priority will be given to those with a Duke affiliation.This one-day symposium will bring researchers and clinicians together to connect recent developments in neuroscience to the practice of psychotherapy, via joint observation and discussion of therapy sessions recorded on video. In order to develop a mechanistic neuroscience framework for understanding psychotherapies, it is imperative to improve bidirectional translation between fields. The goal of this event is to offer a prototype for collaboration between scientists and psychotherapists.In this inaugural meeting, we will focus on a particular model of psychotherapy (AEDP), which explicitly targets change processes of broad interest to neuroscientists. Video records of psychotherapy sessions will be presented and narrated by the developer of the model, Diana Fosha. Three panels of invited speakers (see DIBS Events for details) will respond to these videos in formal presentations to bring forward highly relevant extant neuroscience in three fields: social dyadic interactions, emotion, and memory. Stephen Porges will then highlight one scientific framework for understanding intersubjective regulation and lead an integrative final discussion.