Understanding the therapy change process has fascinated clinicians and researchers for decades. This volume provides an important contribution to this understanding by linking basic research on neurology and emotion to clinical practice. Linking these findings to the contributions of differing approaches to therapy, the authors address a most important question, namely 'What can be an agreed-upon core or consensus in psychotherapy?'
Marvin R. Goldfried, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Psychology Department, Stony Brook University
Psychotherapy is often about change, and typically happens with little thought about the underlying neural underpinnings; Neuroscience of Enduring Change fills this important void. In this marvelous collection, Lane and Nadel have gathered together some of the finest minds to offer their perspectives on memory and emotion, from both a basic science and a clinical point of view. In these high-quality chapters, readers are treated to an inspirational approach for thinking about how and why people change for the better during mental health treatment.
Elizabeth F Loftus, PhD, Distinguished Professor, University of California, Irvine
I strongly recommend this book that presents a reformulation of biopsychosocial change in psychotherapy. It describes a suitably complex computational neuro-circuitries perspective as well as an exciting effort at psychotherapy integration. The authors synthesize concepts about how techniques from various schools all affect memory activation and reconsolidating, a form of plasticity.
Mardi Horowitz, MD, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, UCSF Weil Neurosciences Center
Psychotherapy is a learning process, a way of changing mind and behavior by forming new memories. With contributions by basic scientists and clinicians, The Neuroscience of Enduring Change builds on the science of memory to offer valuable new insights into how the effects of therapy might be made more persistent.
Joseph LeDoux, PhD, Henry And Lucy Moses Professor of Science, Neural Science and Psychiatry, NYU