The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy: Healing the Social Brain (Second Edition) (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy: Healing the Social Brain (Second Edition) (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
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How the brain’s architecture is related to the problems, passions, and aspirations of human beings.
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Dr. Jan said,
Wrote on January 20, 2011 @ 11:44 am
Find out how psychotherapy works!,
After over a century of the ‘talking cure’ helping people with their mental suffering, we finally are able to shine a light on the physical, neurological basis for the changes that happen in the brain after a prolonged therapeutic interaction between patient and therapist. Louis Cozolino is an excellent teacher and with great ease and clarity shows how the brain changes as a result of experiences, both traumatic and healing. He explains how it can become a strong and integrated organ that regulates our emotional states and focusses us towards our goals, if the person it inhabits has a successful experience of attaching securely to the caretaker. He also illustrates the damage that the brain suffers when deprived of the needed opportunity for a secure relationship. Fortunately our brains are able to change given new experiences. This ‘plasticity’ is what allows us to learn new things at any age, by growing new neurons and new pathways between them and prior structures. The author illustrates in great deal the regulatory architecture of the brain, and how psychotherapy when based on a trusting, safe and emotionally significant relationship helps the rational left brain sooth and modulate the affective right hemisphere, and the cortex in general to exert top down inhibition of the emotion generating limbic system. Excellent and highly recommended.
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|Daniel S. Szuhay said,
Wrote on January 20, 2011 @ 12:22 pm
Great, informative, readable book,
Great book. Very informative and readable. A little to gender biased – everything is about the mother-child dyad. Many, many healthy well-adjusted children are raised by adults who were not thier mothers. I wish Cozolino would have used different wording when refering to the importance of the initial primary caregiver-child relationship.
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|Jean Boutiere said,
Wrote on January 20, 2011 @ 1:09 pm
executive and emotional brain in psychotherapy,
Bringing toghether psychodynamic, experiential,attachment,cognitive paradigms with neuroscience is not an easy task.Validation of the therapy by modern neuroimaging techniques is the option proposed by the author. Easy to read and very useful for clinical psychologists, psychotherapists, physicians and “humanities practitioners”.
Jean Boutiere
Internal medicine practitioner and psychosomatic enthusiast
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