The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy: Building and Rebuilding the Human Brain

Louis Cozolino

Overview – Table of Contents

Contents

Part I: Neuroscience and Psychotherapy: An Overview

The Entangled Histories of Neurology and Psychology

Rebuilding the Brain: Neuroscience and Psychotherapy

Neural Integration in Different Models of Psychotherapy

Part II: How the Brain Works: Evolution's Legacy

The Human Nervous System: From Neurons to Neural Networks

Multiple Memory Systems in Psychotherapy

Laterality: One Brain or Two?

Part III: The Organization of Experience and the Healthy Brain

The Executive Brain

The Construction of the Narrative Self

The Itnerpersonal Sculpting of the Social Brain

Part IV: The Disorganization of Experience and Psychopathology

The Self in Exile

About the Author

Louis Cozolino, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at Pepperdine University and a clinical psychologist in private practice. His e-mail address is brainchange@earthlink.net.

ISBN: 0-393-70367-3
September, 2002
Hardcover, 256 pages