Cozolino Louis (ed.) The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy: Healing the Social Brain

2nd edition. — W. W. Norton & Company, 2010. — 434 p. — ISBN: 978-0393706420In contrast to this view, recent theoretical advances in brain imaging have revealed that the brain is an organ continually built and re-built by one's experience. 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. In fact, it could be argued that to be an effective psychotherapist these days it is essential to have some basic understanding of neuroscience. Louis Cozolino's The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy, Second Edition is the perfect place to start.In a beautifully written and accessible synthesis, Cozolino illustrates how the brain's architecture is related to the problems, passions, and aspirations of human beings. As the book so elegantly argues, all forms of psychotherapy--from psychoanalysis to behavioral interventions--are successful to the extent to which they enhance change in relevant neural circuits.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. Throughout the book, the science behind the brain's working is applied to day-to-day experience and clinical practice.Written for psychotherapists and others interested in the relationship between brain and behavior, this book encourages us to consider the brain when attempting to understand human development, mental illness, and psychological health. Fully and thoroughly updated with the many neuroscientific developments that have happened in the eight years since the publication of the first edition, this revision to the bestselling book belongs on the shelf of all practitioners.Neuroscience and Psychotherapy: An Overview
The Entangled Histories of Neurology and Psychology
Building and Rebuilding the Brain: Psychotherapy and Neuroscience
Neural Integration in Different Models of Psychotherapy
How the Brain Works: The Legacy of Evolution
The Human Nervous System: From Neurons to Neural Networks
Multiple Memory Systems in Psychotherapy
Laterality: One Brain or Two?
The Organization of Experience and the Healthy Brain
The Executive Brain
Consciousness and Reality
From Neural Networks to Narratives: The Quest for Multilevel Integration
The Social Brain
The Social Brain
Building the Social Brain: Shaping Attachment Schemas
The Neurobiology of Attachment
The Disorganization of Experience
The Anxious and Fearful Brain
Trauma and Neural Network Dissociation
The Self in Exile: Narcissism and Pathological Caretaking
The Reorganization of Experience
The Evolutionary Necessity of Psychotherapy
Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks: Stimulating Neural Plasticity
The Psychotherapist as Neuroscientist