The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy: Healing the Social Brain: Fourth Edition

Author(s) : Louis Cozolino

The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy: Healing the Social Brain: Fourth Edition

Book Details

  • Publisher : W.W.Norton
  • Published : 2024
  • Cover : Hardback
  • Pages : 608
  • Category :
    Neuroscience
  • Catalogue No : 97825
  • ISBN 13 : 9781324053170
  • ISBN 10 : 1324053178

Table of Contents


Acknowledgements
Preface to the Fourth Edition

Part I: Neuroscience and Psychotherapy
1. The Entangled Histories of Neurology and Psychotherapy
2. Neuroplasticity: Building and Rebuilding the Brain
3. Neural Integration in Different Models of Psychotherapy

Part II: The Evolutionary Foundations of Psychotherapy
4. The Evolution of the Brain and Mind
5. The Evolutionary Necessity of Psychotherapy: Adaptations with Negative Consequences
6. The Evolutionary Necessity of Psychotherapy: The Illusions of Conscious Experience

Part III: How the Brain Works
7. The Human Nervous System: From Neurons to Neural Networks
8. Multiple Memory Systems in Psychotherapy
9. Laterality: One Brain or Two?

Part IV: The Executive Brains
10. The Executive Brains: Activation and Inhibition
11. The Executive Brains: Navigating Space and Time
12. The Executive Brains: Discovering Others and Finding the Self
13. Neural Network Integration
14. Narratives and the Quest for Psychological Integration

Part V: The Social Brain
15. The Emergence of the Social Brain
16. Building the Social Brain: Shaping Attachment Schemas
17. The Neurobiology of Attachment: The Epigenetics of Caretaking
18. Altruism and Psychotherapy

Part VI: The Disorganization of Experience
19. The Anxious and Fearful. Brain
20. Early Traumatic Stress: The Fragmentation of Self and Other
21. The Impact of Trauma
22. The Self in Exile: Narcissism and Pathological Caretaking

Part VII: The Reorganization of Experience
23. Stimulating Neural Plasticity
24. The Psychotherapist as Neuroscientist
25. How People Change
26. Professional Issues: Interpreting Research and Clinical Training

Credits
References
Index

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