Continuing Education for Psychologists
434 pages (text)15 CE credits
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THE NEUROSCIENCE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY, 3rd Edition
Healing the Social Brain
Louis CozolinoW.W. Norton & Company, 2017
DESCRIPTION
An update to the classic text that links neuroscience and human behavior in the context of therapy.
This groundbreaking book explores the recent revolution in psychotherapy that has brought an understanding of the social nature of people's brains to a therapeutic context. Louis Cozolino is a master at synthesizing neuroscientific information and demonstrating how it applies to psychotherapy practice. New material on altruism, executive function, trauma, and change round out this essential book.
The reader will be able to:
• Identify and describe the evidence for brain processes involved in change in psychotherapy
• Describe the overlap between neurology and psychology
• Examine neural integration in different models of psychotherapy
• Explain the operation of neural networks
• Elaborate on the multiple memory systems in psychotherapy
• Define laterality vis-à-vis neuroscience considerations
• Describe executive function
• Review the meaning of consciousness
• Demonstrate multilevel integration
• Recognize social brain processes
• Identify evidence of attachment schemas
• Examine attachment neurobiology
• Assess anxiety and fear processes involved with neurological interference
• Recognize trauma and dissociative processes
• Explain the connection of narcissism and pathological caretaking
• Define elements of what is called 'neural plasticity'
• Utilize models of executive function which allow us to react to danger and successfully navigate the world
• Recognize models that establish and maintain attachment, and create a sense of self and internal reality
AUTHOR
Louis Cozolino, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at Pepperdine University and a clinical psychologist in private practice. He is the author of three other books.
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