The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy: Building and Rebuilding the Human Brain

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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. (His thesis even explains why prayer and meditation work). He tells us what happens in the brain as we change our thoughts and feelings.

This gives us some idea of the amount of power available to us, once we learn how to access it, to get the cognitive part of our brain to manage the emotional part. A. This book is a great source for all cognitive behavioral therapists. B. 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. Then, thanks to the neuroplasticity of the brain, if you do this often enough you can actually re-wire your brain to get out of depression and anxiety at will. The book certainly supports the idea of "brainswitching" to the neocortex when the subcortex is agitated with anxiety or depression, which is what all cognitive behavorial therapists try to teach people to do.

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. The other important part of the book is how our thinking and behavior continue to make physical changes in our brain as long as we live. Curtiss, author of BRAINSWITCH OUT OF DEPRESSION As the book shows, you can do that by thinking particular thoughts that stimulate neural activity in the part of the brain from which you wish to function.

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

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. 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. He breaks down the functioning of the brain into "digestible" chunks and builds throughout the text on earlier learning.