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

Author(s) : Louis Cozolino

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

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  • Publisher : W.W.Norton
  • Published : July 2024
  • Cover : Hardback
  • Pages : 608
  • Category :
    Neuroscience
  • Catalogue No : 97825
  • ISBN 13 : 9781324053170
  • ISBN 10 : 1324053178
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A new edition of the classic text that links neuroscience and human behaviour in a therapeutic context.

This ground-breaking book explores the revolution in psychotherapy that brought an understanding of the social nature of people's brains into a therapeutic context. Louis Cozolino is a master at synthesising neuroscience and demonstrating how it applies to psychotherapy practice. Here, he argues that all forms of psychotherapy are successful to the extent to which they enhance change in relevant neural circuits.

Beginning with an overview of the interesting 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 organisation of experience. In this updated edition, readers will also find new content on the evolutionary foundations of psychotherapy; the necessity of gaining broad perspectives on mind, brain and culture in clinical training; the importance of interpreting research with the human brain's biases in mind; the debatable applicability of Eurocentric perceptions of "self"; and more.

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

About the Author(s)

Louis Cozolino, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at Pepperdine University and a private practitioner. He is the author of The Healthy Aging Brain, The Neuroscience of Human Relationships, The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy, and The Making of a Therapist.

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