The Divided Therapist: Hemispheric Difference and Contemporary Psychotherapy
This important new book explores the nature of the divided brain and its relevance for contemporary psychotherapy. Citing the latest neuroscientific research, it shows how the relationship between the two hemispheres of the brain is central to our mental health, and examines both the practical and theoretical implications for therapy.

Disconnections, dissociations, and imbalances between our two hemispheres underlie many of our most prevalent forms of mental distress and disturbance. These include issues of addiction, autism, schizophrenia, depression, anorexia, relational trauma, borderline and personality disorders, psychopathy, anxiety, derealisation and devitalisation, and alexithymia. A contemporary understanding of the nature of the divided brain is therefore of importance in engaging with and treating these disturbances.

Featuring contributions from some of the key authors in the field, The Divided Therapist suggests that hemispheric integration lies at the heart of the therapeutic process itself, and that a better understanding of the precise mechanisms that underlie and enable this integration will help to transform the practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in the twenty-first century. The book will be essential reading for any therapeutic practitioner interested in how the architecture of the brain informs and effects their client’s issues and challenges.

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The Divided Therapist: Hemispheric Difference and Contemporary Psychotherapy
This important new book explores the nature of the divided brain and its relevance for contemporary psychotherapy. Citing the latest neuroscientific research, it shows how the relationship between the two hemispheres of the brain is central to our mental health, and examines both the practical and theoretical implications for therapy.

Disconnections, dissociations, and imbalances between our two hemispheres underlie many of our most prevalent forms of mental distress and disturbance. These include issues of addiction, autism, schizophrenia, depression, anorexia, relational trauma, borderline and personality disorders, psychopathy, anxiety, derealisation and devitalisation, and alexithymia. A contemporary understanding of the nature of the divided brain is therefore of importance in engaging with and treating these disturbances.

Featuring contributions from some of the key authors in the field, The Divided Therapist suggests that hemispheric integration lies at the heart of the therapeutic process itself, and that a better understanding of the precise mechanisms that underlie and enable this integration will help to transform the practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in the twenty-first century. The book will be essential reading for any therapeutic practitioner interested in how the architecture of the brain informs and effects their client’s issues and challenges.

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The Divided Therapist: Hemispheric Difference and Contemporary Psychotherapy

The Divided Therapist: Hemispheric Difference and Contemporary Psychotherapy

The Divided Therapist: Hemispheric Difference and Contemporary Psychotherapy

The Divided Therapist: Hemispheric Difference and Contemporary Psychotherapy

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This important new book explores the nature of the divided brain and its relevance for contemporary psychotherapy. Citing the latest neuroscientific research, it shows how the relationship between the two hemispheres of the brain is central to our mental health, and examines both the practical and theoretical implications for therapy.

Disconnections, dissociations, and imbalances between our two hemispheres underlie many of our most prevalent forms of mental distress and disturbance. These include issues of addiction, autism, schizophrenia, depression, anorexia, relational trauma, borderline and personality disorders, psychopathy, anxiety, derealisation and devitalisation, and alexithymia. A contemporary understanding of the nature of the divided brain is therefore of importance in engaging with and treating these disturbances.

Featuring contributions from some of the key authors in the field, The Divided Therapist suggests that hemispheric integration lies at the heart of the therapeutic process itself, and that a better understanding of the precise mechanisms that underlie and enable this integration will help to transform the practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in the twenty-first century. The book will be essential reading for any therapeutic practitioner interested in how the architecture of the brain informs and effects their client’s issues and challenges.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780367504427
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 10/07/2020
Pages: 300
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Rod Tweedy, PhD, is the author of The God of the Left Hemisphere: Blake, Bolte Taylor and the Myth of Creation (Routledge, 2013), a study of William Blake’s works in the light of contemporary neuroscience, and the editor of The Political Self: Understanding the Social Context for Mental Illness (Routledge, 2017). He is also an active supporter of Veterans for Peace UK and the user-led mental health organisation, Mental Fight Club.

Table of Contents

List of contributors vii

Acknowledgements x

Introduction Rod Tweedy 1

1 The right brain is dominant in psychotherapy Allan N. Schore 70

2 Ways of attending: how our divided brain constructs the world Iain McGilchrist 93

3 Social and emotional laterality Louis Cozolino 108

4 Distinct but linked: wellbeing and the multimodal mind Alexander Welch Siegel Daniel J. Siegel 129

5 Systems-centred group psychotherapy: developing a group mind that supports right brain function and right-left-right hemispheric integration Susan P. Gantt Bonnie Badenoch 149

6 Going beyond sucking stones: connection and emergent meaning in life and in therapy Barbara Dowds 181

7 A right-brain dissociative model for right-brain disorders: dissociation vs repression in borderline and other severe psychopathologies of early traumatic origin Clara Mucci 202

8 Growing, living and being rightly Darcia Narvaez 228

9 The therapeutic purpose of right-hemispheric language Russell Meares 237

10 The formation of two types of contexts by the brain hemispheres as a basis for a new approach to the mechanisms of psychotherapy Vadim S. Rotenberg 259

Index 279

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