Overview

This important new book explores the nature of the divided brain and its relevance for contemporary psychotherapy. Citing the latest neuroscientific research, it shows how the relationship between the two hemispheres of the brain is central to our mental health, and examines both the practical and theoretical implications for therapy. Disconnections, dissociations, and imbalances between our two hemispheres underlie many of our most prevalent forms of mental distress and disturbance. These include issues of addiction, autism, schizophrenia, depression, anorexia, relational trauma, borderline and personality disorders, psychopathy, anxiety, derealisation and devitalisation, and alexithymia. A contemporary understanding of the nature of the divided brain is therefore of importance in engaging with and treating these disturbances. Featuring contributions from some of the key authors in the field, The Divided Therapist suggests that hemispheric integration lies at the heart of the therapeutic process itself, and that a better understanding of the precise mechanisms that underlie and enable this integration will help to transform the practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in the twenty-first century. The book will be essential reading for any therapeutic practitioner interested in how the architecture of the brain informs and effects their client’s issues and challenges.

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Author:   Rod Tweedy
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.562kg
ISBN:  

9780367492861

ISBN 10:   0367492865
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   07 October 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Rod Tweedy CHAPTER ONE The Right Brain Is Dominant in Psychotherapy Allan N. Schore CHAPTER TWO Ways of Attending: How our Divided Brain Constructs the World Iain McGilchrist CHAPTER THREE Social and Emotional Laterality Louis Cozolino CHAPTER FOUR Distinct But Linked: Wellbeing and the Multimodal Mind Alexander Welch Siegel and Daniel J. Siegel CHAPTER FIVE Systems-Centered Group Psychotherapy: Developing a Group Mind that Supports Right Brain Function and Right-Left-Right Hemispheric Integration Susan P. Gantt and Bonnie Badenoch CHAPTER SIX Going Beyond Sucking Stones: Connection and Emergent Meaning in Life and in Therapy Barbara Dowds CHAPTER SEVEN A right-brain dissociative model for right-brain disorders: Dissociation vs repression in borderline and other severe psychopathologies of early traumatic origin. Clara Mucci CHAPTER EIGHT Growing, Living and Being Rightly Darcia Narvaez CHAPTER NINE The Therapeutic Purpose of Right Hemispheric Language Russell Meares CHAPTER TEN The formation of the two types of contexts by brain hemispheres as a basis for the new approach to the mechanisms of psychotherapy Vadim S. Rotenberg

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"""A magnificent achievement."" – Professor Jeremy Holmes, psychiatrist and author of Exploring in Security: Towards an Attachment-Informed Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and The Search for the Secure Base: Attachment Theory and Psychotherapy ""Fascinating – both lucid and intriguing."" – Adam Phillips, psychoanalyst and author of Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst and Attention Seeking ""Wonderful – a really important book revealing the missing key to understanding psychopathology and psychotherapy."" – Dr Phil Mollon, psychoanalyst and author of Shame and Jealousy: The Hidden Turmoils; Psychoanalytic Energy Psychotherapy; and The Fragile Self: The Structure of Narcissistic Disturbance ""This book explores and explicates insights that are fundamentally important to the practice of therapy today. Really fascinating."" – Robert Snell, analytic psychotherapist and author of Uncertainties, Mysteries, Doubts: Romanticism and the Analytic Attitude"

A magnificent achievement - Professor Jeremy Holmes, psychiatrist and author of Exploring in Security: Towards an Attachment-Informed Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Search for the Secure Base: Attachment Theory and Psychotherapy Fascinating - both lucid and intriguing - Adam Phillips, psychoanalyst and Author of Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst and Attention Seeking Wonderful - a really important book revealing the missing key to understanding psychopathology and psychotherapy - Dr Phil Mollon, psychoanalyst and author of Shame and Jealousy: The Hidden Turmoils; Psychoanalytic Energy Psychotherapy; and The Fragile Self: The Structure of Narcissistic Disturbance This book explores and explicates insights that are fundamentally important to the practice of therapy today. Really fascinating - Robert Snell, analytic psychotherapist and Author of Uncertainties, Mysteries, Doubts: Romanticism and the Analytic Attitude

Author Information

Rod Tweedy, PhD, is the author of The God of the Left Hemisphere: Blake, Bolte Taylor and the Myth of Creation (Routledge, 2013), a study of William Blake’s works in the light of contemporary neuroscience, and the editor of The Political Self: Understanding the Social Context for Mental Illness (Routledge, 2017). He is also an active supporter of Veterans for Peace UK and the user-led mental health organisation, Mental Fight Club.

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