Now 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 synthesises recent discoveries in cognitive neuroscience with a psychoanalytic understanding of human dynamics and a working model for clinical diagnosis. This text looks at how the brain talks to itself to solve survival problems.
Key Features
- Amplifying what we can learn from the conventional mental status exam
- Prioritising and targeting therapeutic interventions
- Providing a framework for fitting advances in psychopharmacology into psychotherapy
- Reconciling disparate forms of psychotherapy in the context of a neural-systems informed “structural therapy”
Additional Information
In studying how the brain talks to itself, this text examines two sets of situations: in the first, neural possibilities mesh adaptively; in the second, dysfunction clouds the picture. Unlike other books in this area that have narrow focuses, How the Brain Talks to Itself offers an extensive and thorough exploration of the human condition by examining the effect that impairment of the left hemisphere has on goals and ambitions, problem-solving, the formation of syndromes, and the use of transitional object transference in stabilising patient identity. You'll find this information provides a comprehensive framework for diagnosing and treating your patients. The chapters will further enhance your knowledge and help you improve your skills.
Specifications
How the Brain Talks to Itself combines vast domains of data so that higher cortical functions consistently relate to their corresponding identity functions. You'll explore the mechanisms that link synaptic potentiation to the emotionally and cognitively organised memories that sustain development.
