Neuroscience of Enduring Change: Implications for Psychotherapy

Neuroscience of Enduring Change is founded on the premise that all major psychotherapy modalities producing enduring change do so by virtue of corrective emotional experiences that alter problematic memories through the process of reconsolidation. This book is unique in linking basic science concepts to clinical research and clinical application. Experts in each area address each of the basic science and clinical topics. No other book addresses a general mechanism of change in psychotherapy in combination with the basic science underpinning it. This book is also unique in bringing the latest neuroimaging evidence and cutting-edge conceptual approaches to bear in understanding how psychological and behavioral treatment approaches bring about lasting change in the brain. Clinicians will benefit from the detailed discussion of basic mechanisms that underpin their clinical interventions and will be challenged to consider how their approach to therapy might be adjusted to optimize the opportunities for enduring change. Researchers will benefit from authoritative reviews of extant knowledge and a clear description of the research agenda going forward. The cross-fertilization between the research and clinical domains is evident throughout.

Table of Contents:
Overview 1. Lynn Nadel and Richard D. Lane. Neuroscience of Enduring Change and Psychotherapy: An Introduction Basic Science Perspectives 2. Lynn Nadel. What is a Memory That It Can Be Changed? 3. Ryan Smith. The Three-Process Model of Implicit and Explicit Emotion 4. Ajay B. Satpute, Erik C. Nook and Melis E. Cakar. The Role of Language in the Construction of Emotion and Memory: A Predictive Coding View 5. Jessica R. Andrews-Hanna, Kalina Christoff and Mary-Frances O'Connor. Dynamic Regulation of Internal Experience: Mechanisms of Therapeutic Change 6. Joseph E. Dunsmoor and Marijn C.W. Kroes. Emotion-memory interactions: implications for the reconsolidation of negative memories 7. Jessica D. Payne. Stress and sleep interact to selectively consolidate and transform negative emotional memories: Implications for Clinical Treatment 8. Matthew D. Grilli and Lee Ryan. Autobiographical Memory and the Self-Concept Clinical Psychotherapy Perspectives 9. Antonio Pascual-Leone and Leslie S. Greenberg. Emotion Focused Therapy: Integrating Neuroscience and Practice 10. Jonathan D. Huppert, Isaac Fradkin and Shawn P. Cahill. CBT for anxiety disorders: Memory reconsolidation theory and its relationship to cognitive, emotional processing, and inhibitory models 11. Bruce Ecker. Erasing Problematic Emotional Learnings: Psychotherapeutic Use of Memory Reconsolidation Research 12. Hanna Levenson, Lynne Angus and Erica Pool. Viewing Psychodynamic/Interpersonal Theory and Practice through the Lens of Memory Reconsolidation 13. Rhonda Goldman and Alyssa Fredrick-Keniston. Memory Reconsolidation as a Common Change Process: Moving Toward an Integrative Model of Psychotherapy Integrative Perspectives 14. Richard D. Lane. The Affective Origin and Treatment of Recurrent Maladaptive Patterns 15. Ryan Smith, Richard D. Lane, Lynn Nadel, and Michael Moutoussis. A computational neuroscience perspective on the change process in psychotherapy 16. Richard D. Lane, Ryan Smith and Lynn Nadel. Neuroscience of Enduring Change and Psychotherapy: Summary, Conclusions and Future Directions

About the Author :
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. Lynn Nadel is a contributor to the literature on the hippocampus and its role in spatial memory, cognition, and consolidation, in humans and other animals. An active and influential contributor to the field for about 40 years who has advanced two influential theories of hippocampal function: Cognitive Map Theory and Multiple Trace Theory.

Review :
"Understanding the therapy change process has fascinated clinicians and researchers for decades. This volume provides an important contribution to this understanding by linking basic research on neurology and emotion to clinical practice. Linking these findings to the contributions of differing approaches to therapy, the authors address a most important question, namely 'What can be an agreed-upon core or consensus in psychotherapy?'" -- Marvin R. Goldfried, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Psychology Department, Stony Brook University "Psychotherapy is often about change, and typically happens with little thought about the underlying neural underpinnings; Neuroscience of Enduring Change fills this important void. In this marvelous collection, Lane and Nadel have gathered together some of the finest minds to offer their perspectives on memory and emotion, from both a basic science and a clinical point of view. In these high-quality chapters, readers are treated to an inspirational approach for thinking about how and why people change for the better during mental health treatment." -- Elizabeth F Loftus, PhD, Distinguished Professor, University of California, Irvine "I strongly recommend this book that presents a reformulation of biopsychosocial change in psychotherapy. It describes a suitably complex computational neuro-circuitries perspective as well as an exciting effort at psychotherapy integration. The authors synthesize concepts about how techniques from various schools all affect memory activation and reconsolidating, a form of plasticity." -- Mardi Horowitz, MD, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, UCSF Weil Neurosciences Center "Psychotherapy is a learning process, a way of changing mind and behavior by forming new memories. With contributions by basic scientists and clinicians, The Neuroscience of Enduring Change builds on the science of memory to offer valuable new insights into how the effects of therapy might be made more persistent." -- Joseph LeDoux, PhD, Henry And Lucy Moses Professor of Science, Neural Science and Psychiatry, NYU