Neuroscience of Enduring Change: Implications for Psychotherapy
By Richard D. Lane, MD, Ph.D.
Everyone who has sought help with their mental health has at least considered a therapist and a good amount of people in the United States have standing appointments with mental health professionals at increasing rates during these unprecedented times. Each of these professionals has a focused method that they study and clients often book or are referred to these professionals with specialized methods. Enter Richard Lane and his Neuroscience of Enduring Change.
This is new research that turns general psychotherapy on its head by making positive and lasting changes in a client! How does this method do this? Well, by bringing up past emotional experiences that may have been problematic for a client and completely reprogramming the meanings of the outcome like a choose your own adventure story in the mind. This book is unique in linking basic science concepts into clinical research and can even show the practical clinical application!
Dr. Lane will expose us to his research concepts and give us the actual science behind why this method works and then demonstrating the potent effects. Psychotherapy practitioners in the audience will be challenged to consider how their own approach to therapy might be adjusted to enduring change. Researchers in the audience will benefit from authoritative reviews of this knowledge, having a clear description of the research agenda, and the continuous evidence of this research translated to practical application throughout the book.
Dr. Lane's credentials are numerous, and interest varied. For this book, Dr. Lane will speak to you about:
What enduring change is in the field of neuroscience and the implications for psychotherapists
The 2015 paper on his influences in the field of psychotherapy and how those influences inspired his research in psychotherapy.
Episodic and schematic memory and how they interact and contribute to the sense of self
Memory Reconsolidation
What role does emotion play in psychotherapy
How memory is not just a record of the past but an essential guide to the future
The LRNG model and The IMM Models
The essential ingredients of enduing changes
The role of REM sleep in memory transformation
Psychodynamic Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Behavioral Therapy
Whether changes in psychotherapy can be attributed to memory reconsolidation
The types of memory that can be changed
The role of language in the construction of emotion and energy
How stress and sleep interact to selectively consolidate and transform negative emotional memories
how you integrate science and practice in emotion-focused therapy.
How CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) is used for anxiety disorders
How memory reconsolidation becomes a common practice in psychotherapy
How in psychotherapy there are explicit experiences of memories and emotions
How memories can be erased
Why sleep and napping after psychotherapy sessions is important
His recommendations on the duration, spacing, and number of psychotherapy sessions
Combining medications in psychotherapy
Whether your physiological self be monitored during psychotherapy
What resting-state fMRI is in psychotherapy
Hardcover: 504 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1 edition (March 10, 2020)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0190881518
ISBN-13: 978-0190881511
Richard D. Lane is a clinical psychiatrist and psychotherapist trained in cognitive neuroscience and emotion research whose research has focused on brain mechanisms of emotion and emotion regulation, emotional awareness, neurovisceral integration, and the mechanisms by which emotion influences susceptibility to sudden cardiac death. His background in cognitive and affective neuroscience is now being integrated with his ongoing experience as a therapist and psychotherapy educator.
