The Biological Power of the Talking Cure
Louis Cozolino • 5/29/2019
By Louis Cozolino - Some therapists bristle at the integration of neuroscience and psychotherapy, calling it irrelevant or reductionistic. But it's hard to grasp how the brain could be irrelevant to changing the mind. Knowing about neuroscience is invaluable for therapists, not because it offers specific new techniques or clinical theories, but because it provides a deeper understanding of the biological power of the "talking cure."
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How Infant Attachment Security Affects Adult Relationships
Authors:
LINDA CURRAN, BCPC, LPC, CAC-D, CCDPD, EMDR-C
BESSEL A VAN DER KOLK, MD
TERRENCE REAL, LICSW
DIANE POOLE-HELLER, PHD
SUSAN JOHNSON, ED.D.
PETER A. LEVINE, PH.D.
GABOR MATÉ, MD
LISA FERENTZ, LCSW-C, DAPA
LOUIS COZOLINO, PHD
LANCE DODES, MD
MARY LOU SCHACK
Authors:
LINDA CURRAN, BCPC, LPC, CAC-D, CCDPD, EMDR-C
BESSEL A VAN DER KOLK, MD
TERRENCE REAL, LICSW
DIANE POOLE-HELLER, PHD
SUSAN JOHNSON, ED.D.
PETER A. LEVINE, PH.D.
GABOR MATÉ, MD
LISA FERENTZ, LCSW-C, DAPA
LOUIS COZOLINO, PHD
LANCE DODES, MD
MARY LOU SCHACK
The Neuroscience behind Developmental/Attachment Trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences
Authors:
LINDA CURRAN, BCPC, LPC, CAC-D, CCDPD, EMDR-C
LANE PEDERSON, PSY.D, LP
BESSEL A VAN DER KOLK, MD
GABOR MATÉ, MD
LOUIS COZOLINO, PHD
CHRISTINE COURTOIS, PHD, ABPP
JAMES HOPPER, PH.D.
LANCE DODES, MD
VINCENT FELITTI, MD
MARY LOU SCHACK
Authors:
LINDA CURRAN, BCPC, LPC, CAC-D, CCDPD, EMDR-C
LANE PEDERSON, PSY.D, LP
BESSEL A VAN DER KOLK, MD
GABOR MATÉ, MD
LOUIS COZOLINO, PHD
CHRISTINE COURTOIS, PHD, ABPP
JAMES HOPPER, PH.D.
LANCE DODES, MD
VINCENT FELITTI, MD
MARY LOU SCHACK
Using the Brain to Explain Fear and Anxiety Objectively
Louis Cozolino • 4/30/2015
The aspects of our brains that evolved 50,000 years ago—which give us astonishing powers of thought, logic, imagination, empathy, and morality—also share skull space with the ancient brain equipment that we've inherited from our mammalian and reptilian forebears over the past several million years, including the neural circuitry involved in fear and anxiety. Some therapists bristle at the integration of neuroscience and psychotherapy, calling it irrelevant or reductionistic. But information about the brain and how it evolved helps us communicate with clients about their problems in an objective and non-shaming manner. It's hard to grasp how the brain could be irrelevant to changing the mind.
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Understanding the Limits of Self-Awareness
Louis Cozolino • 5/8/2014
It’s commonly suggested that depression results from seeing reality too clearly. Repression, denial, and humor grease the social wheels and lead us to put a positive spin on the behavior of those around us. This may be why humans have so few networks dedicated to self-insight and so many ways of distorting reality in their favor.
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How the Evolution of the Human Brain has Led to the Existence of the Triune Brain
Louis Cozolino • 12/12/2013
When thinking about the general evolution of humans, we primarily compare ourselves to our chimp-like ancestors. But when it comes to the specific evolution of the human brain we must share skull space with the ancient brain equipment that we’ve inherited from our mammalian and reptilian forebears over the past several million years.
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We're Not as Evolved as We Think
Louis Cozolino • 9/1/2008
The human brain is an anachronistic menagerie that confronts the psychotherapist with the challenge of treating a human, a horse, and a crocodile, all attempting to inhabit the same body and often struggling for dominance simultaneously.
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