Includes bibliographical references and index.

The entangled histories of neurology and psychology -- Building and rebuilding the brain : psychotherapy and neuroscience -- Neural integration in different models of psychotherapy -- The human nervous system : from neurons to neural networks -- Multiple memory systems in psychotherapy -- Laterality : one brain or two? -- The executive brain : activation and inhibition -- The executive brain : navigating space and time -- The executive brain : discovering others and finding the self -- From neural networks to narratives -- The social brain -- Building the social brain : shaping attachment schemas -- The neurobiology of attachment -- Altruism and psychotherapy -- The anxious and fearful brain -- Early traumatic stress : the fragmentation of self and others -- The impact of trauma : biochemical dysregulation and neural network dissociation -- The self in exile : narcissism and pathological caretaking -- The evolutionary necessity of psychotherapy -- Stimulating neural plasticity -- The psychotherapist as neuroscientist -- How people change.