1st edition: April 2021

Could neuroscience, and more specifically interpersonal neurobiology, clarify the unique ways in which group processes interact with the brain and enhance its development, as well as its reparative processes? This book brings together the work of twelve contemporary group therapists who explore this direction, applying the principles of interpersonal neurobiology to a variety of approaches in group psychotherapy.

The fact that interpersonal neurobiology focuses on how human beings, through their interactions, shape each other's brains throughout their lives makes it a very fertile approach for all of us who coordinate therapeutic groups.

The group serves as a unique environment capable of igniting, enhancing, containing, and resonating across a broad spectrum of human experiences, thereby creating the necessary conditions for altering the brain's neural pathways and the accompanying behaviors.

This innovative collective volume contributes in a very creative way to the effort of bridging the rich experience in group psychotherapy with the latest developments in neuroscience. Drawing from their therapeutic work with children, adults, and couples, the authors utilize the interdisciplinary perspective of interpersonal neurobiology to understand the conscious and unconscious psycho-neurobiological mechanisms involved in the processes of manifest and particularly implicit change sought by group psychotherapy.

This book also contributes to the understanding of how effective coordination of a group that focuses on emotion can create an environment in which the development and optimization of the "social-emotional" neural circuits in the right hemisphere of the brain, which constitutes the biological substrate of the unconscious mind, thrive.

It also serves as a theoretical resource for developing empirically supported models of group psychotherapy that can function at a clinical level.

Allan N. Schore, author of The Science of the Art of Psychotherapy.