As we go through our daily life we are pulled by one demand after another, one possibility after another, so that we rarely find ourselves simply being. As a consequence, we also find that we do not know what we feel at other than a superficial level. In the midst of so much activity, we […]
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Neuroplasticity and Psychotherapy Generating alternative responses
Changing maladaptive habits, also known as neuroses, to more functional responses is a major feature of psychotherapy. Recently much has been written about neuroplasticity as a mechanism by which this change can occur. To put it simply, the field of neuroscience asserts that both the processes and the habits of emotion, behavior and cognition ride […]