Depathologizing Psychopathology The Neuroscience of Mental Illness a
This brief, accessible treatise harnesses the neurophysiological processes of learning to create an innovative and powerful approach to therapy. It sets out a non-pathologizing alternative not only to the current medicalized conception of diagnosis and tr
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epathologizing Psychopathology The Neuroscience of Mental Illness and Its Treatment
Depathologizing Psychopathology
Theodore Wasserman • Lori Drucker Wasserman
Depathologizing Psychopathology The Neuroscience of Mental Illness and Its Treatment
Theodore Wasserman Wasserman and Drucker PA Powerline Road, FL, USA
Lori Drucker Wasserman Wasserman and Drucker PA Boca Raton, FL, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-30908-8 ISBN 978-3-319-30910-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-30910-1
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Preface
Recently, we were sitting in a workshop that was describing the effects of toxic stress on the development of young children. As you can imagine, these effects were not good. The presenter did an impressive job of detailing the neurophysiological reaction of developing brain networks to continuous stress. Problems with both connectivity and recruitment of white matter connections in brain networks and the deleterious impact that stress has on their development were discussed. There was a clear and convincing demonstration of the interaction of an environmentally based stressful experience (learning) and neural physiology detailing how the damage was caused and what the long-term cognitive and emotional sequelae were. After the presenter finished the formal presentation and called for questions, the inevitable question arrived, “What can we do to fix this damage once it occurs?” “Therapy” came as the answer. Just therapy. Nothing else was provided. While some examples of things such as play therapy or even swaddling were shown, there was no discussion as to why a particular technique should be selected or what changes in an individual’s neural network functioning could be expected from its utilization. Ther
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