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The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy: Building and Rebuilding the Human Brain
by Louis Cozolino
from W. W. Norton & Company

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

• How It Works
  The author explains how what we think programs our brain and how learning to think differently changes our brain: he explains the psyiology that underlies psychotherapy. He tells us what happens in the brain as we change our thoughts and feelings. (His thesis even explains why prayer and meditation work.)

• Shows How Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Works
  This book is a great source for all cognitive behavioral therapists. One of the main things I got from this book is that we can see how the architecture of the brain is set up for us to manage things from the top down--that is, to manage our emotions from the seat of our cognitive faculties. There are almost 10 times more nerve fibers carrying sensory information from the top down rather than from the bottom up; TO the subcortex FROM the neocortex rather than the other way around. This gives us some idea of... more info

• The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy
  An excellent book combining the fields of neuroscience and psychotherapy and explaining the effects of emotional trauma on brain development.

• Excellent Review and Exploration
  Cozolino's text presents a very complicated topic in an extremely accessible manner, owing to a straightforward writing style and a penchant for perfectly applicable example case studies. He breaks down the functioning of the brain into "digestible" chunks and builds throughout the text on earlier learning. If you work in the field of counseling or psychotherapy, you simply cannot go wrong by reading this book and supplementing your knowledge of neuroscience-psychotherapy connection.

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