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Commentary on: Kinley, J. L. and Reyno, S. M. “Dynamic Relational Group Psychotherapy: A Neurobiologically Informed Model of Change”

In the past three decades, major advances in neuroscience have been spurred on by new research tools, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and single neuron recording, as well as greater understanding of neurochemistry and psychopharmacology. Other disciplines such as clinical and experimental psychology and psychiatry have related these methods and findings to human behavior, mental illness, pharmacotherapy, and psychotherapy. It is only natural that group psychotherapists would find these studies and results of great interest. In particular, neuroscience studies of treatment effectiveness (Mundo, 2006), post-traumatic stress (van der Kolk, 2003), the social brain (Cozolino, 2006), mirror neurons (Iacobini, 2008), self-regulation of affect (Schore, 1994), and attachment behavior (Cozolino, 2014) hold out great promise for group therapists. Thus far, the following premises and conclusions seem to be valid: 1) talk therapy and group interactive therapy are effective and produce salutary brain changes; 2) the brain constantly interacts with the environment, significant others, and people in proximity, that is, the brain is social; 3) through mirror neurons, the brain equates self