A Short-Cut to Understanding Affective Neuroscience is a remarkable book that will appeal to academics and laymen, theoreticians and clinicians.
Thus, by Understanding a client\'s affects, a psychotherapist can make sense of seemingly disconnected ideas that arise in the therapeutic conversation..
Understanding affects also provides the theoretical basis for conditioning where disparate ideas, as affect-laden memories, can become associated.
For example, the two distinct types of anxiety, each originating in a different system, explain the effectiveness of different medications.
These subcortical structures in and around the brain stem generate seven basic types of Affective consciousness, the existence and breadth of which have important implications for the practice of psychotherapy and psychiatry.
Beginning with a survey of the theories of Affective consciousness, this book first shows that, for all mammals, affects are unique experiences of pleasure and pain, emanating from deep noncognitive brain structures.
With a seamless narrative that weaves and explains complex theories, experimental research, and clinical practice, this book will interest mental health professionals and anyone who wants to learn more about the Affective life of people and other mammals. -Donald Campbell: Past President and Distinguished Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society This book clarifies and evaluates vast amounts of neuroscientific research, arriving at a clear and concise framework that demonstrates how to ground mental health practice in the results of neuroscience.
She does not avoid complexity and uncertainty when addressing challenging questions in neuroscience.
Readers will appreciate Lucy Biven\'s thorough research and her straightforward language.
A Short-Cut to Understanding Affective Neuroscience is a remarkable book that will appeal to academics and laymen, theoreticians and clinicians
