In the emotional, facial, memory, motor, social, spatial,
and verbal domains cerebral cortex abstracting thinking and decision making part
of the brain we can see frontal lobes of the cortex - higher order thinking and
good judgment impairment here; get them drunk and observe their social
judgment.
It's aimed at helping people to become aware of when they make negative interpretations, also it helps people to develop new ways of thinking which will lead to reducing distress.