Extensive explorations in neuroscience, psychology, and psychotherapy increasingly recognized the embodied and relational foundations of selfhood, underscoring the need for an integrated framework spanning development, psychopathology, and therapeutic change. This narrative review synthesizes empirical and theoretical literature across neuroscience, embodiment research, predictive processing,...
Aesthetic experiences are bodily-anchored, posited to evoke profound emotional responses and advance development, mental health and well-being. This paper reviews and conceptually analyzes the embodied aesthetic experience and its imperative contribution to the psychotherapeutic relational field, by integratively and interdisciplinarity interweaving neuroscientific and psychodynamic approaches...
Intriguing explorations at the intersection of the fields of neuroscience and psychology are driven by the quest to understand the neural underpinnings of "the self" and their psychotherapeutic implications. These translational efforts pertain to the unique Creative Arts Therapies (CATs) and the attributes and value of the self-related processes they offer. The self is considered as a...