Meaningful and Lasting Change - Psychotherapy in the Light of Evolutionary Processes

Andrew T Gloster; Elisa Haller

doi:10.32872/cpe.9859

Meaningful and Lasting Change - Psychotherapy in the Light of Evolutionary Processes

Clin Psychol Eur. 2022 Sep 30;4(3):e9859. doi: 10.32872/cpe.9859. eCollection 2022 Sep.

Authors

Andrew T Gloster¹, Elisa Haller¹

Affiliation

¹ Division of Clinical Psychology and Intervention Science, Faculty of Psychology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

Abstract

Psychotherapies can lead to meaningful and lasting change.Evolutionary theory is relevant for understanding psychotherapy.Process-based approaches to conceptualizing psychotherapy can help organize clinical knowledge.Process-based approaches may be more useful than competitions between psychotherapy schools.

Keywords: evolution; processes of change; psychotherapy.

Publication types

Editorial

Grants and funding

This work was funded in part by the Swiss National Science Foundation (Grants: PP00P1_190082 & PP00P1_163716/1) awarded to the first author.