Now you can more fully understand and help your clients with this
description of the development of the consciousness of identity as
it occurs in well-defined stages. How the Brain Talks to Itself
synthesizes recent discoveries in cognitive neuroscience with a
psychoanalytic understanding of human dynamics and a working model
for clinical diagnosis. In studying how the brain talks to itself
to solve survival problems, this text looks at two sets of
situations. In the first, neural possibilities mesh adaptively. In
the second, dysfunction clouds the picture--something has gone
wrong with the brain, in the life, or in a combination that ends in
clinical syndromes. Unlike other books in this area that have
narrow focuses, How the Brain Talks to Itself gives you an
extensive and thorough exploration of the human condition by
examining the effect that impairment of the left hemisphere has on
goals and ambitions, problemsolving, the formation of syndromes,
the use of transitional object transference in stabilizing patient
identity, and how the brain registers, organizes, assesses,
reflects, and acts on data. You'll find this information gives you
a comprehensive framework for diagnosing and treating your
patients. Chapters will further enhance your knowledge and help you
improve your skills by: amplifying what we can learn from the
conventional mental status exam prioritizing and targeting
therapeutic interventions providing a framework for fitting
advances in psychopharmacology into psychotherapy reconciling
disparate forms of psychotherapy in the context of a neural-systems
informed "structural therapy"How the Brain Talks to Itself combines
vast domains of data so that higher cortical functions consistently
relate to their corresponding identity functions. You'll explore
the mechanisms that link synaptic potentiation to the emotionally
and cognitively organized memories that sustain development. These
mechanisms process the cognitive, social, and emotional data that
are needed for problemsolving. You'll also see how the ways in
which synaptic potentiations are comprised by definable varieties
of stress that lead to the spectrum of DSM-IV syndromes. Author Jay
E. Harris, MD, derives functional and structural principles from
all of the disciplines--psychoanalytic psychology, cognitive
neuroscience, clinical psychiatry, neurology, and
linguistics--relevant to the brain's development, information
processing, problemsolving, and syndrome formation. He includes
case histories, clinical vignettes, and diagnostic examples of
mental status dialogues with patients to help you in your
understanding of this complex topic. You'll find that How the Brain
Talks to Itself answers many questions you have about the brain's
role in identity formation and resultant clinical sydromes.
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