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What Freud didn't know : a three-step practice for emotional well-being through neuroscience and psychology

What Freud Didn't Know, well-supported by research and groundbreaking in theory, combines neuroscience and psychology to explain how the amygdala region of the brain evolved to unconsciously record, store, and activate emotional memory loops and imagery associated with painful events, especially those of childhood. This book is the first to bring together diverse, post-Freudian discoveries to produce a coherent three-step practice for understanding problematic aspects of the human mind which can be mastered easily, in a clinical or self-help setting. Timothy B. Stokes explores recent breakthro
eBook, English, ©2009
Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J., ©2009
1 online resource (xvii, 210 pages) : illustrations
9780813548142, 0813548144
775441746
Discovering amygdala scripts
Amygdala scripts : a close look
Overview of the three-step practice for mastering amygdala scripts
Step 1 : mindfulness and the emotion component of a script
Step 2 : insight and the image component
Step 3 : changing the belief component
Putting it all together : the three step practice
Therapist-to-therapist : amygdala scripts and the three step practice in therapy
Making unscripted emotions our allies