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Schizophrenia Bulletin 2006 32(Supplement 1):S10-S11; doi:10.1093/schbul/sbl026
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Editorial: The Significance of Psychotherapy in the Age of Neuroscience

Hans Dieter Brenner1,2, Volker Roder3 and Wolfgang Tschacher3
2 Departamento de Psiquiatria, Escuela de Medicina Universidad de Valparaiso, Chile
3 University Hospital of Psychiatry, University of Bern, Switzerland

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Anyone engaged in the progress of psychiatry and psychotherapy must ask themselves the disquieting question whether we are about to split into a neuroscientific camp on the one hand and a psychosocial camp on the other—despite all stated beliefs about a common biopsychosocial point of view. A supplement of Schizophrenia Bulletin devoted entirely to the psychotherapy of schizophrenic patients therefore merits an editorial that addresses the specific significance of psychotherapeutic approaches in relation to recent discoveries in neuroscience.

The biological paradigm has become predominant both among experts and in the lay press in recent years. This paradigm often comes with the tendency to regard all mental illnesses primarily as expressions of impaired brain function, therefore isolating them from the interrelations between person and environment. Hence, mental illnesses in this view no longer differ, in principle, from other illnesses of the central nervous system, and it seems possible to treat them . . . [Full Text of this Article]

1 To whom correspondence should be addressed; tel: +41-31-387 6111, fax: +41-31-3829020, e-mail: veron@spk.unibe.ch.


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