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Psychotherapy meets neuroscience

A more focused future for psychotherapy research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Peter Fonagy*
Affiliation:
The Anna Freud Centre, Sub-Department of Clinical Health Psychology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT (e-mail: e.allison@ucl.ac.uk)
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The ‘evidence base’ for my contribution to futurology is a set of integrative reviews of outcome studies of psychotherapy on which I have collaborated with a number of colleagues (Roth & Fonagy 1996; Fonagy et al, 2002a,b). This work is a pleasure, not so much because of the enlightenment that reading hundreds of papers provides, but rather because of the technical challenges that compiling material across broad fields invariably presents.

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