Cozolino, Louis J.,

The neuroscience of psychotherapy : healing the social brain / Louis J. Cozolino ; foreword by Daniel J. Siegel. - Second edition. - xiv, 459 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references 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.

0393706427 9780393706420

2009043708


Psychotherapy.
Neurosciences.
Brain--Research.
Brain--Diseases--Psychological aspects.
Neuropsychology.
Brain--Physiology.
Psychotherapy--Methodology.

RC480.5 / .C645 2010

616.8914