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Why Therapy Works

Using Our Minds to Change Our Brains

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Why Therapy Works

By: Louis Cozolino
Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
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In Why Therapy Works, Louis Cozolino explains the mechanisms of psychotherapeutic change from the bottom up, beginning with the brain, and how brains have evolved - especially how brains evolved to learn, unlearn, and relearn, which is at the basis of lasting psychological change.

Listeners will learn why therapists have to look beyond just words, diagnoses, and presenting problems to the inner histories of their clients in order to discover paths to positive change. The book also shows how our brains have evolved into social organs and how our interpersonal lives are a source of both pain and power. Listeners will explore with Cozolino how our brains are programmed to connect in intimate relationships and come to understand the debilitating effects of anxiety, stress, and trauma.

Finally, the book will lead to an understanding of the power of story and narratives for fostering self-regulation, neural integration, and positive change.

Always, the focus of the book is in understanding underlying therapeutic change, moving beyond the particular of specific forms of therapy to the commonalities of human evolution, biology, and experience.

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It touches down many aspects of therapy from a neurosience point of view but in a comprehensive way. Enjoyable but complex.

this book is a must if you are a therapist

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The books is really interesting in overall but gets too medical with names of brain parts at times

Above average

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Interesting listen, good info on trauma and nice anecdotes on the challenges and workings of being a therapist

Decent inisight into therapy

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Brilliant as usual from Cozolino. Easy to follow and understand and above all, captivating and enlightening.

Very insightful

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This is great book for therapists in training or if they just started their own practice. Even for someone with lots of experience, like myself, it is great book for grounding and refreshing. It will help with your imposter syndrome, if you have one, mine popping in from time to time :)

Treasure for therapists

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