The Brain Has A Mind Of Its Own Jeremy Holmes by Jeremy Holmes 9781913494025, 1913494020 instant download after payment.

Psychotherapy
is a practice in search of a theory. Recent advances in relational
neuroscience and attachment research now offer convincing avenues for
understanding how the 'talking cure' helps clients recover. Drawing on
Karl Friston's Free Energy Principle and contemporary attachment theory
this book shows how psychotherapy works. This pioneering text provides a
deep theoretical explanation for how psychotherapy helps sufferers
overcome trauma, redress relationship difficulties and ameliorate
depression. Neuroscience validates the psychoanalytic principles of
establishing a trusting therapeutic secure base; using ambiguity to
bring pre-formed assumptions into view for revision; dream analysis,
free association and playfulness in extending clients' repertoire of
narratives for meeting life's vicissitudes; and re-starting the capacity
to learn from experience. Holmes demonstrates how psychotherapy works
at a neuroscientific level, making complex ideas vivid and
comprehensible for a wide readership.