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 neuroscientic 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 includ…
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- Full title :The divided therapist : hemispheric difference and contemporary psychotherapy / edited by Rod Tweedy.
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This important new book explores the nature of the divided brain and its relevance for contemporary psychotherapy. Citing the latest neuroscientic 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 eld, 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-rst century. The book will be essential reading for any therapeutic practitioner interested in how the architecture of the brain informs and eects their client's issues and challenges.
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- Publication Date:©2021
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2021
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xi, 290 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781000192445, 100019244X, 9781000192506, 1000192504, 9781000192476, 1000192474, 9781003049876, 1003049877
- DOI:10.4324/9781003049876
- oclc:on1191153093
- LC Classification:RC480
- Dewey Decimal:616.89/14
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