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The neuroscience of psychotherapy : healing the social brain

Cozolino shows how the brain's architecture is related to the problems, passions, and aspirations of human beings. He asserts that all forms of psychotherapy, from psychoanalysis to behavioral intervention, are successful to the extent to which they enhance change in relevant neural circuits
Print Book, English, ©2010
W.W. Norton & Co., New York, ©2010
xiv, 459 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780393706420, 0393706427
449866799
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