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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade Review"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
Table of ContentsIntroduction
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
