What Freud Didn't Know: A Three-Step Practice for Emotional Well-Being through Neuroscience and Psychology

In a thoughtful and down-to-earth way, Timothy B. Stokes overturns old formulas—and many Freudian concepts—for achieving personal change. During one's lifetime, hidden memories, along with their misleading assumptions, can unconsciously trigger conflicted feelingsùthe basis for most psychological problems, large and small.

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. Stokes explores recent breakthroughs, many in marked contrast to Freud's views, which will change how we view psychological and emotional problems and their treatments.

Grounded in current theories about brain circuitry, What Freud Didn't Know integrates ideas about mindfulness, habitual thinking, and insight imagery and provides readers with the tools to rescript their personal narratives for psychological well-being. As an alternative approach to treating stress, most types of depression, anxiety, and phobias without prescription drugs, Stokes's three-step practice can be used to build resiliency and inner peace.

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What Freud Didn't Know: A Three-Step Practice for Emotional Well-Being through Neuroscience and Psychology

In a thoughtful and down-to-earth way, Timothy B. Stokes overturns old formulas—and many Freudian concepts—for achieving personal change. During one's lifetime, hidden memories, along with their misleading assumptions, can unconsciously trigger conflicted feelingsùthe basis for most psychological problems, large and small.

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. Stokes explores recent breakthroughs, many in marked contrast to Freud's views, which will change how we view psychological and emotional problems and their treatments.

Grounded in current theories about brain circuitry, What Freud Didn't Know integrates ideas about mindfulness, habitual thinking, and insight imagery and provides readers with the tools to rescript their personal narratives for psychological well-being. As an alternative approach to treating stress, most types of depression, anxiety, and phobias without prescription drugs, Stokes's three-step practice can be used to build resiliency and inner peace.

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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: A Three-Step Practice for Emotional Well-Being through Neuroscience and Psychology

by Timothy B. Stokes
What Freud Didn't Know: A Three-Step Practice for Emotional Well-Being through Neuroscience and Psychology

What Freud Didn't Know: A Three-Step Practice for Emotional Well-Being through Neuroscience and Psychology

by Timothy B. Stokes

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In a thoughtful and down-to-earth way, Timothy B. Stokes overturns old formulas—and many Freudian concepts—for achieving personal change. During one's lifetime, hidden memories, along with their misleading assumptions, can unconsciously trigger conflicted feelingsùthe basis for most psychological problems, large and small.

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. Stokes explores recent breakthroughs, many in marked contrast to Freud's views, which will change how we view psychological and emotional problems and their treatments.

Grounded in current theories about brain circuitry, What Freud Didn't Know integrates ideas about mindfulness, habitual thinking, and insight imagery and provides readers with the tools to rescript their personal narratives for psychological well-being. As an alternative approach to treating stress, most types of depression, anxiety, and phobias without prescription drugs, Stokes's three-step practice can be used to build resiliency and inner peace.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780813548142
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 11/05/2009
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 224
File size: 639 KB

About the Author

Timothy B. Stokes, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Boulder, Colorado. Since 1985 he has been clinical director of CPS Inc., which provides psychotherapy to more than 250 clients each year. He was a former editorinchief of the Naropa Journal of Contemplative Psychotherapy.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Discovering Amygdala Scripts
Chapter 2: Amygdala Scripts: A Close Look
Chapter 3: Overview of the ThreeStep Practice for Mastering Amygdala Scripts
Chapter 4: Step 1: Mindfulness and the Emotion Component of a Script
Chapter 5: Step 2: Insight and the Image Component
Chapter 6: Step 3: Changing the Belief Component
Chapter 7: Putting It All Together: The Three Step Practice
Chapter 8: TherapisttoTherapist: Amygdala Scripts and the Three Step Practice in Therapy
Chapter 9: Making Unscripted Emotions Our Allies
Appendix A: Relaxation Exercise
Appendix B: Neurobiological Research Notes
Appendix C: Amygdala Scripts and Childcare
Appendix D: Suggested Readings
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