How People Change: Relationships and Neuroplasticity in Psychotherapy

by Marion F. Solomon Ph.D., Daniel J. Siegel M.D.

Overview

Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience to understand psychotherapeutic change.

Growth and change are at the heart of all successful psychotherapy. Regardless of one's clinical orientation or style, psychotherapy is an emerging process that s created moment by moment, between client and therapist.

 How People Change explores the complexities of attachment, the brain, mind, and body as they aid change during psychotherapy. Research is presented about the properties of healing relationships and communication strategies that facilitate change in the social brain. Contributions by Philip M. Bromberg, Louis Cozolino and Vanessa Davis, Margaret Wilkinson, Pat Ogden, Peter A. Levine, Russell Meares, Dan Hughes, Martha Stark, Stan Tatkin, Marion Solomon, and Daniel J. Siegel and Bonnie Goldstein.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393711776
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	05/09/2017
Series:	Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Marion Solomon, PhD, is a lecturer at the David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry at UCLA. She is co-editor with Dan Siegel of several books in the IPNB Series, including Healing Trauma and How People Change.
Noted neuropsychiatrist Daniel J. Siegel, MD, is clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine, and executive director of the Mindsight Institute in LA. He is founding editor of the Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology.

Table of Contents

Introduction Marion Solomon Daniel J. Siegel 9

1 Psychotherapy as the Growth of Wholeness: The Negotiation of Individuality and Otherness Philip M. Bromberg 17

1 How People Change Louis Cozolino Vanessa Davis 53

3 A Whole Person Approach to Dynamic Psychotherapy Margaret Wilkinson 73

4 Beyond Words: A Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Perspective Pat Ogden 97

5 Emotion, the Body, and Change Peter A. Levine 127

6 The Disintegrative Core of Relational Trauma and a Way Toward Unity Russell Meares 151

7 How Children Change Within the Therapeutic Relationship: Interweaving Communications of Curiosity and Empathy Dan Hughes 167

8 The Therapeutic Use of Optimal Stress: Precipitating Disruption to Trigger Recovery Martha Stark 185

9 How Couples Change: A Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy (PACT) Stan Tatkin 221

10 How Couple Therapy Can Affect Long-Term Relationships and Change Each Of The Partners Marion Solomon 247

11 Feeling Felt: Cocreating an Emergent Experience of Connection, Safety, and Awareness in Individual and Group Psychotherapy Daniel J. Siegel Bonnie Goldstein 275

List of Contributors 291

Index 293

Editorial Reviews

In language that can be understood by all levels of psychologist, from those in graduate programs up through experienced clinicians, How People Change offers practical theories for accomplishing psychological change. . . . [A] great way to succinctly gather new perspectives on how to approach the process of change in therapy.— Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy

This is an excellent book not only for therapists, but also for those who study the philosophy of mind, for those looking at policy in societal change, insurance companies, and those who teach and practice body work such as yoga, tai chi, qigong, dance therapy, and more. . . . [I]t has been refreshing to read the different ways that extremely competent therapists work and in a variety of ways. . . . This book supports the importance of paying attention to the therapeutic relationship, to what clients want, and their own theory of how change occurs for them (and your ability to work with that). This book is well worth your time. I continue to refer to it.— Psych Central

This masterful collection of essays is rich with practical insights for psychotherapists, coaches, and really anyone who helps others change for the better. Far-reaching, lucid, full of heart, and highly recommended.— Rick Hanson, PhD, author of Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom

Each of the chapters—or better yet, each of the authors—in this book is authentic in the way that Bromberg uses in his chapter. Each therapist, and each is a master at doing therapy, expresses their individual struggle with the question of how change in therapy happens, and how to make meaning out of a change process that can only be apprehended through experience and eludes colonization by words. And yet something special goes on as you read the words. It will be a realization of authenticity between you and the writer, an expanding dyadic experience that is emergent and surpasses the limitations of language and symbols. It is a dyadic state bringing you a new clarity of expanding understanding of what you always knew but didn't know you knew.— Ed Tronick, PhD, Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Director, Child Development Unit

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