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The neuroscience of psychotherapy : healing the social brain /

By: Publication details: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2010].Edition: Second editionDescription: xiv, 459 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780393706420
  • 0393706427
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • RC480.5 .C645 2010
Contents:
Preface to the second edition -- The entangled histories of neurology and psychology -- Building and rebuilding the brain : psychotherapy and neuroscience -- Neural integration in different models of psychotherapy -- The human nervous system : from neurons to neural networks -- Multiple memory systems in psychotherapy -- Laterality : on brain or two? -- The executive brain -- Consciousness and reality -- From neural networks to narratives : the quest for multilevel integration -- The social brain -- Building the social brain : shaping attachment schemas -- The neurobiology of attachment -- The anxious and fearful brain -- Trauma and neural network dissociation -- The self in exile : narcissism and pathological caretaking -- The evolutionary necessity of psychotherapy -- Teaching old dogs new tricks : stimulating neural plasticity -- The psychotherapist as neuroscientist.
Summary: Cozolino shows how the brain's architecture is related to the problems, passions, and aspirations of human beings. He asserts that all forms of psychotherapy, from psychoanalysis to behavioral intervention, are successful to the extent to which they enhance change in relevant neural circuits.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-439) and index.

Preface to the second edition -- The entangled histories of neurology and psychology -- Building and rebuilding the brain : psychotherapy and neuroscience -- Neural integration in different models of psychotherapy -- The human nervous system : from neurons to neural networks -- Multiple memory systems in psychotherapy -- Laterality : on brain or two? -- The executive brain -- Consciousness and reality -- From neural networks to narratives : the quest for multilevel integration -- The social brain -- Building the social brain : shaping attachment schemas -- The neurobiology of attachment -- The anxious and fearful brain -- Trauma and neural network dissociation -- The self in exile : narcissism and pathological caretaking -- The evolutionary necessity of psychotherapy -- Teaching old dogs new tricks : stimulating neural plasticity -- The psychotherapist as neuroscientist.

Cozolino shows how the brain's architecture is related to the problems, passions, and aspirations of human beings. He asserts that all forms of psychotherapy, from psychoanalysis to behavioral intervention, are successful to the extent to which they enhance change in relevant neural circuits.

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