![]() ![]() Bessel van der Kolk M.D., medical director, the Trauma Center, Brookline MA professor of psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine and author of New York Times bestseller The Body Keeps the Score. ![]() This hopeful book demonstrates that a variety of sensory inputs - light, sound, electricity, vibration, movement, and thought -can awaken the brain’s attention processors, and thereby allow even the most afflicted to (re)gain ownership of their lives. ![]() With an eloquence reminiscent of Oliver Sacks, Doidge bolsters the latest advances in brain science with a series of extraordinary case histories of people for whom all hope seemed to be lost, but who healed as a result of great personal courage, and by changing the ways their bodies and brains processed sensations and movement. Norman Doidge, M.D., is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and researcher on the faculty at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in New York and the University of Toronto’s department of psychiatry, as well as an author, essayist, and poet. Norman Doidge enthrals us with a rich combination of lucidly explained brain research and pioneering … approaches to recovery. To support, sign up for the newsletter, become a patron, and/or. The Rabbit Hole is written by Blas Moros. This is both a good and a bad thing as we can change our brains in case it gets injured but we are also more susceptible outside influences. “The Brain’s Way of Healing is a stunner - the sort of book you want to read several times, not because it is difficult to understand, but because it opens up so many novel and startling avenues into our potential to heal. Doidge discusses neuroplasticity extensively - the ability of the brain to rewire itself. ![]()
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