Depathologizing Psychopathology The Neuroscience of Mental Illness and Its Treatment /

• Main Authors: Wasserman, Theodore (Author), Wasserman, Lori Drucker (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Psychiatry.; Health psychology.; Neuropsychology.; Health Psychology.

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 treatment but also to the labeling of relativel...

Table of Contents:

• Principles of Learning
• Therapy versus education--why education is better
• Automaticity
• How we learn
• Mental illness as a white matter connectivity problem
• What Is Cognitive Learning Therapy?
• Introduction to cognitive learning therapy
• Key concepts in cognitive learning therapy
• The relationship between therapist and client in cognitive learning therapy
• Applications of Cognitive Learning Therapy
• Cognitive learning therapy for depression
• Cognitive learning therapy for obsessive thinking and compulsive behavior
• Cognitive learning therapy for anxiety and other regulatory disorders
• Cognitive learning therapy and educating parents on how to manage their children
• Summary and concluding remarks: where do we go from here?.