Memory and healing : neurocognitive and psychodynamic perspectives on how patients and psychotherapists remember / by Soren R. Ekstrom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ekstrom, Soren R., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brain damage--Patients--Rehabilitation.

Brain damage.

Clinical neuropsychology.

False memory syndrome.

Neurobiology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, [2018].

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book addresses the current demand to apply findings in neuroscience to a broad spectrum of psychotherapy practices. It offers clear formulations for what has long been missing in how psychotherapists present their work: research-based descriptions of specific memory functions and attention to the role that synaptic plasticity and neural integration play in making lasting psychological change possible. The book provides a detailed perspective on how patients integrate into their own narratives what transpires in their treatment and how the clinician's memory guides the different phases of the process of healing. Long-neglected in psychotherapeutic formulations, findings about memory-in particular, episodic and autobiographical memory-have a direct bearing on what happens in treatments. Whether the information is about the recent past, such as what happened between sessions, or about traumatic childhood experiences, the patient's disclosures are in the service of a more complete narrative about self. At the same time, the therapist's ways of remembering what occurs in each therapeutic relationship will guide much of the healing process for the patient.

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; PREFACE; PART I APPLYING THE FINDINGS IN RESEARCH; CHAPTER ONE Why memory and psychotherapy; CHAPTER TWO The nature of subjectivity; CHAPTER THREE Retrieving history of the self; CHAPTER FOUR Stories told and retold; CHAPTER FIVE Dreams as stories; CHAPTER SIX Metaphors and meaning; PART II REMEMBERING, REPORTING, AND TEACHING; CHAPTER SEVEN Where it happens and how; CHAPTER EIGHT What there is to tell; CHAPTER NINE Listening in a different state of mind; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 1, 2014).

ISBN:

0-429-91618-3

0-429-90195-X

0-367-10215-3

0-429-47718-X

1-78241-233-6

9780429477188

OCLC:

877038748