During the past twenty years, considerable progress has been made in finding potential correspondences between psychological and neurological features of mood and anxiety disorders. It has been achieved by integrating clinical studies in many areas of human and animal research, with significant contributions coming from functional neuroimaging experiments. Beutel & Huber have reviewed the potential of functional neuroimaging for understanding and evaluating psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and their outcomes. They review many of the methods of functional neuroimaging and indicate that its goal is to demonstrate the brain states that correlate with symptoms and the emotional and mental states of patients with various disorders. The review mainly focuses on the disorders expressing anxiety and depression. The large number of stimulus probes that can elicit a wide variety of different kinds of mental functioning are described. The authors review neuroimaging studies of the anxiety disorders and major depression. The impact of psychodynamic psychotherapy on brain function is considered, and they