Why Therapy Works

Using Our Minds to Change Our Brains

Louis Cozolino (Pepperdine University)

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Norton
11 December 2015

Psychology; Psychotherapy; Popular psychology

Series: Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology

That psychotherapy works is a basic assumption of anyone who sees a therapist. But why does it work? And why does it matter that we understand how it works?

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.

Readers 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. Readers 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.

This book is for anyone who has experienced the benefits of therapy and wondered how it worked. It is for anyone thinking about whether therapy is right for them, and it is for anyone who has looked within themselves and marvelled at people's ability to experience profound transformation.

By: Louis Cozolino (Pepperdine University)
Imprint: Norton
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 218mm, Width: 145mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 457g
ISBN: 9780393709056
ISBN 10: 0393709051
Series: Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 11 December 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Louis Cozolino, PhD, is a professor of psychology at Pepperdine University and a private practitioner. He is the author of The Healthy Aging Brain, The Neuroscience of Human Relationships, The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy, and The Making of a Therapist. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

Reviews for Why Therapy Works: Using Our Minds to Change Our Brains

Why Therapy Works is a tour de force. Too often today the public thinks that one can read a book or watch a documentary and be transformed psychologically. Unfortunately, that is not how the human mind works. Humans require other minds for change and change is hard. We are 'embodied and embedded' in an interpersonal matrix. To understand the human experience and create change, we must move from a single-skull understanding to an intersubjective context of two or more minds. Louis Cozolino explains this phenomenon in a manner easy to digest, taking the reader from the evolutionary heritage of human psychology to an understanding of the experience of psychotherapy applied in common clinical circumstances. -- Drew Pinsky, MD, Internist/Addictionologist and Host of Dr. Drew on HLN