Depathologizing Psychopathology : the Neuroscience of Mental Illness and Its Treatment / by Theodore Wasserman, Lori Drucker Wasserman.

This brief, accessible treatise harnesses the neurophysiological processes of learning to create an innovative and powerful approach to therapy. It sets out a non-pathologizing alternative not only to the current medicalized conception of diagnosis and treatment but also to the labeling of relativel...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Authors: Wasserman, Theodore (Author), Wasserman, Lori Drucker (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Springer, 2016.
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Table of Contents:
  • Paradigm shifts
  • Pathologizing everyday life
  • How we learn : models of learning and cognition
  • A proposed learning model for therapy
  • The effect of learning on the development of the connectome
  • The connectome and emotion
  • Biologically based disorders of mental illness
  • Automaticity and unconsciousness : what are they and what's the difference?
  • Mental illness
  • Therapy
  • Historical principles of therapy and information exchange
  • New principles of therapy
  • Tell me how you feel
  • Case studies
  • The takeaway
  • Neurocognitive learning therapy : clinical teaching guide.