Author: COZOLINO, LOUIS
Title: The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy. Building & Rebuilding the Human Brain.
Description: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2002.. (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology). First edition. XX + 377 p., diagrams, bibliogr., index HARDCOVER: (Orig. hlf cloth. Dust jacket. Seven pages with some light pencil underlining, else UNREAD and NEW) ¶ Recent theoretical perspectives and technological advances in brain imaging have revealed that the brain is an organ continually built and re-built by one's experiences. We are now beginning to learn that many forms of psychotherapy, developed in the absence of any scientific understanding of the brain, are supported by neuroscientific findings. Beginning with an overview of the intersecting fields of neuroscience and psychotherapy, this book delves into the brain's inner workings, from basic neuronal building blocks to complex systems of memory, language, and the organization of experience. It continues by explaining the development and organization of the healthy brain and the unhealthy brain. Common problems such as anxiety, trauma, and codependency are discussed from a scientific and clinical perspective. Cozolino concludes by introducing the emerging paradigm of the psychotherapist-as-neuroscientist and presents some practical applications of neuroscience to psychotherapy. Throughout the book, the science behind the brain's workings is applied to day-to-day experience and clinical practice.

Keywords: psychology psychologie Psychotherapy neuroscience


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