Using the Achievement of Therapeutic Objectives Scale to Operationalize “Unlocking” of the Unconscious

Could neurofeedback improve therapist-patient communication? Considering the potential for neuroscience informed examinations of the psychotherapeutic relationship

“…From an insightoriented perspective, patients might also be able to use this feedback to learn what an empathic response in another person looks and sounds like, and/or to retrain an empathic misperception. It seems plausible that such tools might prove useful in either improving the quality of long-term psychotherapeutic interactions (e.g., during psychodynamic psychotherapy), or for shorter-term therapies (e.g., manualized CBT, or even intensive short term psychodynamic therapy [ISTDP] (Caldiroli et al, 2020;Hoviatdoost et al, 2022)). Whether such an approach could reduce the number of sessions needed to achieve a standard clinical outcome, or alternately, to improve clinical outcomes, is unknown.…”