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• Title:Why therapy works : using our minds to change our brains / Louis Cozolino.
  
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• Author/Creator:Cozolino, Louis J., author.
  
• Published/Created:New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WM420 .C7549 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Psychotherapy.
  Evidence-based medicine.
  
• Medical Subjects: Psychotherapy.
  
• Edition:First edition.
  
• Description:xiv, 271 pages ; 22 cm
  
• Series:Norton series on interpersonal neurobiology.
  
• Summary: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? Here, Lou 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. All this learning and relearning is the basis of lasting psychological change. You 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. You will learn how our brains have evolved into social organs and how our interpersonal lives are a source of both pain and power. You'll explore with him how our brains are programmed to connect in intimate relationships and come to understand the debilitating effects of anxiety, stress, and trauma. Finally, you'll come to understand 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 marveled at people's ability to experience profound transformation. -- From dust jacket.
  
• Notes:Includes index.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780393709056 hardcover
  0393709051 hardcover
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. One THINKING BRAIN: CONSCIOUSNESS AND SELF-AWARENESS
  1. Why Humans Need Therapy
  2. Why Therapy Works
  3. Nonpresenting Problem
  4. Using Our Minds to Change Our Brains
  5. Those Things We Don't Remember Yet Never Forget
  pt. Two SOCIAL BRAIN: EMBODIED AND EMBEDDED
  6. Social Brain and Failure to Thrive
  7. Attachment and Intimate Relationships
  8. Core Shame
  9. Social Status Schema: Our Place in the Social World
  10. Helping Clients Become Alphas
  pt. Three DISSOCIATION AND INTEGRATION: APPLICATIONS TO PSYCHOTHERAPY
  11. Anxiety and Stress
  12. Understanding and Treating Trauma
  13. Complex Trauma: A Developmental Perspective
  14. Power of Coherent Narratives
  15. Pain Is Inevitable; Suffering Is Optional.