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by: Louis Cozolino  List Price: $30.00 Amazon.com's Price: $20.89 You Save: $9.11 (30%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 616.8914 EAN: 9780393703672 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0393703673 Label: W. W. Norton & Company Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 377 Publication Date: June 15, 2002 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Studio: W. W. Norton & Company Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Proposing a reconciliation between neuroscience and psychotherapy. Many forms of psychotherapy, developed in the absence of any understanding of the brain, are now supported by neuroscientific findings. This book argues that the brain is an organ of adaptation, built by interpersonal experiences and capable of change during one's life. Written for anyone interested in the relationship between brain and behavior, it encourages us to consider the brain when attempting to understand others and ourselves. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Awesome seller!Shipping was very quick and item was just as described. A pleasure doing business with. Rating:  - How It WorksThe 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.) Rating: - Shows How Cognitive Behavioral Therapy WorksThis 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 ... Read More Rating: - The Neuroscience of PsychotherapyAn excellent book combining the fields of neuroscience and psychotherapy and explaining the effects of emotional trauma on brain development. Rating: - Excellent Review and ExplorationCozolino'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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