November 2004

editorial

how love shapes a baby's brain
In an important new book, which it seems will revolutionise the way we think about the development of human personality and emotional life, Sue Gerhardt shows how the attachment relationship between mother and baby shapes the baby's brain and sets up its stress responses for later life

three levels of therapy
Therapy is not one thing but many, argues John Rowan. Here he identifies three levels of therapy: the instrumental, the authentic and the transpersonal, and suggests that it is mainly at the instrumental level that empirical validation is crucial

the physiology of empathy
The discovery of mirror neurons lends a new dimension of understanding to empathy, countertransference and projective identification that was not previously available, says Babette Rothschild

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