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"Integrating groundbreaking research on neuroplasticity, brain development, and therapeutic change, this book details a novel neurobiological and psychotherapeutic paradigm-and reveals how therapists can use this paradigm for more precise and successful treatment. Clients arrive to therapy troubled by deeply ingrained neural circuits and emotional habits, such as, ""I am unlovable and incapable of love."" The authors illustrate how integrating self-affirming, nonconscious emotional resources-or brain systems-changes rigid, maladaptive neural circuits. New, adaptive circuits inhibit toxic, dysfunctional patterns, releasing nonconscious emotions, such as fear, grief, guilt, and shame. This allows the emergence of more complex and flexible mental functioning and produces more successful psychotherapeutic outcomes. Developed by two psychotherapists with more than six collective decades of experience, this model reveals treatment strategies and procedures that harness the power of neuroplasticity, enabling the patient's mind to change the structure of their brain."

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Beatriz and Albert Sheldon provide an innovative model in which insights from neuroscience and embodied in an effective and compassionate form of psychotherapy. At the core of their therapy is a deep respect for our need as a species to be safe and to trust. Their insightful treatment model documents that the journey to optimized mental health may efficiently be reached through a treatment model informed by an appreciation of the brain circuits that evolved to support out biological imperative to trust and to be socially connected.--Stephen W. Porges, PhD, Distinguished University Scientist, Founding Director, Traumatic Stress Research Consortium, Kinsey Institute, Indiana University Bloomington Psychotherapeutic insights and practices are being revolutionized by neuroscience, epigenetics, and the growing recognition that we have multiple evolved processing systems, many of which are not fully conscious and can be in conflict. In this intriguing book on interacting brain systems, Beatriz and Albert Sheldon attempt to bridge recent findings from evolutionary neuroscience into therapeutic insights and practices. They indicate how therapists can help clients become familiar with old and new brain processes and help them cultivate motives and competencies that enable a better interaction and integration of mental processes. Therapists will find many new ways of thinking about psychological processes and ways of engaging with client complexity. An easy to understand, unique, and deeply informative book for all therapists.--Paul Gilbert, PhD, Professor, Centre for Compassion Research and Training, College of Health, Psychology and Social Care, University of Derby, author of Human Nature and Suffering Wow, what a book. This extraordinary summary of clinically relevant brain science is clearly written, thoroughly practical, and infused with caring for the people we work with. It provides a necessary foundation for early career therapists while also offering many fresh insights for experienced clinicians. The overall approach is truly brilliant. Highly recommended.--Rick Hanson, PhD, author of Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom

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Beatriz Sheldon M.Ed, Psych. has practiced psychotherapy for forty years in four languages. Ms. Sheldon received specialized post-graduate training in short-term dynamic psychotherapy at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Director of a psychotherapy training program for advanced clinicians in Vancouver, Canada, she and Albert have researched and taught psychotherapy together for 20 years. Albert Sheldon, MD, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Washington, Seattle, has specialized in the research, practice and training of psychotherapy for 35 years. Dr. Sheldon received a Bush Medical Fellowship to study psychotherapeutic processes from a psychophysiological perspective. The development of the CIMBS paradigm is a result of the Sheldon’s research and teaching experiential psychotherapy to clinicians throughout North America and Europe.

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