Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Preface to the Third Edition xi
Part I Neuroscience and Psychotherapy: An Overview
1 The Entangled Histories of Neurology and Psychology 3
2 Building and Rebuilding the Brain: Psychotherapy and Neuroscience 14
3 Neural Integration in Different Models of Psychotherapy 34
Part II How the Brain Works: The Legacy of Evolution
4 The Human Nervous System: From Neurons to Neural Networks 57
5 Multiple Memory Systems in Psychotherapy 75
6 Laterality: One Brain or Two? 96
Part III Executive Functioning and Neural Integration
7 The Executive Brain: Directed Action and Inhibition 119
8 The Executive Brain: Navigating Space and Time 140
9 The Executive Brain: Discovering Others and Finding the Self 156
10 From Neural Networks to Narratives: The Quest for Integration 173
Part IV Attachment and Connectedness
11 The Social Brain 201
12 Building the Social Brain: Shaping Attachment Schemas 221
13 The Neurobiology of Attachment 237
14 Altruism and Psychotherapy: Leveraging the Social Brain in the Service of Change 262
Part V The Disorganization of Experience
15 The Anxious and Fearful Brain 283
16 Early Traumatic Stress: The Fragmentation of Self and Others 305
17 The Impact of Trauma: Biochemical Dysregulation and Neural Network Dissociation 323
18 The Self in Exile: Narcissism and Pathological Caretaking 342
Part VI The Reorganization of Experience
19 The Evolutionary Necessity of Psychotherapy 361
20 Stimulating Neural Plasticity 379
21 The Psychotherapist as Neuroscientist 397
22 How People Change 418
Credits 435
References 441
Index 567