How the Brain Talks to Itself: A Clinical Primer of Psychotherapeutic NeuroscienceNow you can more fully understand and help your clients with this description of the development of the consciousness of identity as it occurs in well-defined stages. How the Brain Talks to Itself synthesizes recent discoveries in cognitive neuroscience with a psychoanalytic understanding of human dynamics and a working model for clinical diagnosis. In studying how the brain talks to itself to solve survival problems, this text looks at two sets of situations. In the first, neural possibilities mesh adaptively. In the second, dysfunction clouds the picture--something has gone wrong with the brain, in the life, or in a combination that ends in clinical syndromes. Unlike other books in this area that have narrow focuses, How the Brain Talks to Itself gives you an extensive and thorough exploration of the human condition by examining the effect that impairment of the left hemisphere has on goals and ambitions, problemsolving, the formation of syndromes, the use of transitional object transference in stabilizing patient identity, and how the brain registers, organizes, assesses, reflects, and acts on data. You'll find this information gives you a comprehensive framework for diagnosing and treating your patients. Chapters will further enhance your knowledge and help you improve your skills by:
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Contents
How Does the Brain Talk to Itself? 258 | 2 |
What Is in This Primer? | 8 |
The Functional Anatomy of Consciousness | 19 |
Foundations of Clinical Neuroscience | 49 |
The Anatomy of Our Being | 81 |
Terms for How We Become Who We Are | 111 |
How Neural Systems Conflict | 117 |
How Can Therapy Induce Change? | 123 |
Unifying Hypotheses | 245 |
How the Schizophrenic Brain | 271 |
An Excitotoxic Model for Schizophrenia | 278 |
Types of Schizophrenia | 290 |
Memory and Related | 321 |
Delirium | 329 |
Screen Memories and Trauma | 339 |
A Manual of Structural Therapy | 347 |
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How the Brain Talks to Itself: A Clinical Primer of Psychotherapeutic ... Jay E Harris Limited preview - 2019 |
How the Brain Talks to Itself: A Clinical Primer of Psychotherapeutic ... Jay Harris No preview available - 1998 |
How the Brain Talks to Itself: A Clinical Primer of Psychotherapeutic ... Jay Harris No preview available - 1998 |
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