title: Biological v. psychosocial treatments: a myth about pharmacotherapy v. psychotherapy.
abstract: Despite evidence for their comparable efficacy, psychotherapy faces a dramatic decline relative to pharmacotherapy in psychiatry. A deep ideological reason for this decline centres on the belief that psychotherapy is a psychosocial treatment whereas pharmacotherapy is a biological treatment. Modern cognitive neuroscience demonstrates that this distinction is a myth.
authors.affiliation: Aaron Prosser, MSc, Complex Mental Illness Program (Forensic Division), Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada; Bartosz Helfer, MSc, King's College London, MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, London, UK; Stefan Leucht, MD, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technical University Munich, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Munich, Germany aaron.prosser@camh.ca.
authors.forename: Aaron
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Prosser
authors.affiliation: Aaron Prosser, MSc, Complex Mental Illness Program (Forensic Division), Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada; Bartosz Helfer, MSc, King's College London, MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, London, UK; Stefan Leucht, MD, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technical University Munich, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Munich, Germany.
authors.forename: Bartosz
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Helfer
authors.affiliation: Aaron Prosser, MSc, Complex Mental Illness Program (Forensic Division), Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada; Bartosz Helfer, MSc, King's College London, MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, London, UK; Stefan Leucht, MD, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technical University Munich, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Munich, Germany.
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Leucht
mesh_terms: D004358:Drug Therapy / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States