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Psychiatrist Richard Friedman at Cornell Medical Center in today’s NY Times:
The studies (UCLA, etc.) show that pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy can produce remarkably similar effects on functional brain activity … It is clear that talk therapy can alter brain function … Learning literally changes the structure and function of the brain.
If psychotherapy produces nearly the same brain changes as pharmacotherapy, then the boundary between mind and brain is purely artificial — even unnatural.
Behold the power of honest conversations …
