Why Therapy Works: Using Our Minds to Change Our Brains: 0 (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology) - Hardcover

Cozolino, Louis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393709051 ISBN 13: 9780393709056

Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

That psychotherapy works is a basic assumption of anyone who sees a therapist. But why does it work? And why does it matter that we understand how it works?

In Why Therapy Works, Louis Cozolino explains the mechanisms of psychotherapeutic change from the bottom up, beginning with the brain, and how brains have evolved―especially how brains evolved to learn, unlearn and relearn, which is at the basis of lasting psychological change.

Readers will learn why therapists have to look beyond just words, diagnoses and presenting problems to the inner histories of their clients in order to discover paths to positive change. The book also shows how our brains have evolved into social organs and how our interpersonal lives are a source of both pain and power. Readers will explore with Cozolino how our brains are programmed to connect in intimate relationships and come to understand the debilitating effects of anxiety, stress and trauma.

Finally, the book will lead to an understanding of the power of story and narratives for fostering self-regulation, neural integration and positive change.

Always, the focus of the book is in understanding underlying therapeutic change, moving beyond the particular of specific forms of therapy to the commonalities of human evolution, biology and experience.

This book is for anyone who has experienced the benefits of therapy and wondered how it worked. It is for anyone thinking about whether therapy is right for them, and it is for anyone who has looked within themselves and marvelled at people's ability to experience profound transformation.

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Louis Cozolino, PhD, is a professor of psychology at Pepperdine University and maintains a clinical and consulting practice in Los Angeles, California.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: WW Norton & Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0393709051
• ISBN 13: 9780393709056
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
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