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The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy: Building and Rebuilding the Human Brain by Louis Cozolino
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Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co. (6/15/2002) ISBN: 0393703673 Edition: 1 Hardcover: 400 pages Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.5 x 1.6 inches Average Customer Review: based on 12 reviews.
Proposing a reconciliation between neuroscience and psychotherapy. Many forms of psychotherapy, developed in the absence of any understanding of the brain, are now supported by neuroscientific findings. This book argues that the brain is an organ of adaptation, built by interpersonal experiences and capable of change during one's life. Written for anyone interested in the relationship between brain and behavior, it encourages us to consider the brain when attempting to understand others and ourselves.

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A must Read! I believe that this book is a must read for anyone going into counseling or clinic psychology. The book explains basic brain anatomy and brain functions. It gives the counselor solid and relevant information on how psychopathology may manifest it self in the brain. Cozolino compares healthy brains with those that are not healthy and gives a solid neuroscience base for anything ranging from PTSD to depression to personality disorders (he mostly focus on borderline personality disorder). He introduces the reader to the idea that psychotherapy my be able to change the structure of the brain. Well written and easy to read. Great gook!

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How It Works The author explains how what we think programs our brain and how learning to think differently changes our brain: he explains the psyiology that underlies psychotherapy. He tells us what happens in the brain as we change our thoughts and feelings. (His thesis even explains why prayer and meditation work.)

Shows How Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Works This book is a great source for all cognitive behavioral therapists. One of the main things I got from this book is that we can see how the architecture of the brain is set up for us to manage things from the top down--that is, to manage our emotions from the seat of our cognitive faculties. There are almost 10 times more nerve fibers carrying sensory information from the top down rather than from the bottom up; TO the subcortex FROM the neocortex rather than the other way around. This gives us some idea of the amount of power available to us, once we learn how to access it, to get the cognitive part of our brain to manage the emotional part. The other important part of the book is how our thinking and behavior continue to make physical changes in our brain as long as we live. The book certainly supports the idea of "brainswitching" to the neocortex when the subcortex is agitated with anxiety or depression, which is what all cognitive behavorial therapists try to teach people to do. As the book shows, you can do that by thinking particular thoughts that stimulate neural activity in the part of the brain from which you wish to function. Then, thanks to the neuroplasticity of the brain, if you do this often enough you can actually re-wire your brain to get out of depression and anxiety at will. A. B. Curtiss, author of BRAINSWITCH OUT OF DEPRESSION

The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy An excellent book combining the fields of neuroscience and psychotherapy and explaining the effects of emotional trauma on brain development.