This is a question that has plagued psychiatrists and psychologists for many years but it has been finally addressed by Nobel Laureate Dr.Eric Kandel. A neurobiologist whose training in psychiatry lead him to an interest in the efficacy of psychotherapy, Kandel decided to trade his couch for a lab coat to see if psychotherapy actually works. With a string of scientific papers and a plethora of fields of interest – behaviorist psychology, cognitive psychology, neuroscience and molecular biology – Kandel is no scientific lightweight. Yet he was disappointed that psychoanalysis was not more scientific, i.e. the effects of going to … Continue reading →