The Brain has a Mind of its Own - Attachment, Neurobiology, and the New Science of Psychotherapy

Describing the neuroscientific basis for effective psychotherapy, Professor Holmes draws on the Free Energy Principle, which holds that, through -active inference- -- agency and model revision -- the brain minimises discrepancies between incoming experience and its pre-existing picture of the world. Difficulties with these processes underlie clients- need for psychotherapeutic help. Based on his relational -borrowed brain- model, and deploying his capacity to communicate complex ideas to a wide audience, Holmes shows us how the -talking cure- reinstates active inference and thus how therapy helps bring about change.