You are not your brain : the 4-step solution for changing bad habits, ending unhealthy thinking, and taking control of your life

You are not your brain The 4-step solution for changing bad habits, ending unhealthy thinking, and taking control of your life

Jeffrey Schwartz, 1951-

Book - 2011

A leading neuroplasticity researcher and the coauthor of the groundbreaking books Brain Lock and The Mind and the Brain, Jeffrey M. Schwartz has spent his career studying the structure and neuronal firing patterns of the human brain. He pioneered the first mindfulness-based treatment program for people suffering from OCD, teaching patients how to achieve long-term relief from their compulsions. For the past six years, Schwartz has worked with psychiatrist Rebecca Gladding to refine a program that successfully explains how the brain works and why we often feel besieged by bad brain wiring.

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Subjects
Behavior modification.
Habit breaking.
Brain.
Change (Psychology)
Self-help techniques.
Published
New York : Avery [2011]
Language
English
Main Author
Jeffrey Schwartz, 1951- (-)
Other Authors
Rebecca Gladding (-)
Physical Description
xx, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9781583334836
9781583334263
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. A Sense of Self
  • Chapter 1. You Are Not Your Brain
  • Chapter 2. Using Your Mind to Change Your Brain: The Power of Self-Directed Neuroplasticity and Meaningful Goals
  • Chapter 3. Why Habits Are So Hard to Break
  • Chapter 4. Why These Sensations Feel So Real: The Biology of Deceptive Brain Messages
  • Chapter 5. A New Sense of Self: Overcoming Your Deceptive Brain Messages with the Four Steps
  • Part 2. The Skills
  • Chapter 6. Ignoring, Minimizing, and Neglecting: How Deceptive Brain Messages Distort Your View of Yourself
  • Chapter 7. Moving Forward with the Four Steps: Tips and Recommendations
  • Chapter 8. You Can't Change What You Can't See. The Power of Awareness and Step 1: Relabel
  • Chapter 9. Changing Your Relationship to Deceptive Brain Messages with Step 2: Reframe
  • Chapter 10. Reframing Your Thinking Errors
  • Chapter 11. The Power Is in the Focus: Step 3: Refocus
  • Chapter 12. Progressive Mindfulness and Step 4 Revalue
  • Part 3. Applying the Four Steps to Your Life
  • Chapter 13. What Is Going On Here? Is This a True Emotion or an Emotional Sensation?
  • Chapter 14. Using the Four Steps to Help You Move Forward in Your Life
  • Chapter 15. Putting It All Together
  • Acknowledgments
  • Recommended Reading
  • Index
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Using research based on patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder, U.C.L.A. psychiatrists Schwartz (The Mind and the Brain) and Gladding have developed a program that helps patients literally change the brain pathways that lead to unhealthy behavior-from obsessively checking e-mail to self-hatred to drug addiction. Aspects of their common-sense scientific approach include: understanding how the brain works; understanding what constitutes a "deceptive brain message;" acting as one's own Wise Advocate by analyzing the effects of any choice and picking the one likely to lead to a positive result; setting and prioritizing goals, and more. Success depends on the patient's innate ability to reason and focus on healthy alternatives to the preferred or automatic behavior. Changing one's will can essentially change the brain, the authors argue, and the methods will work as long as the desire to change is there. Though Schwartz and Gladding add a fascinating self-actualizing component of choice and control, readers may have trouble grasping the more science-heavy passages, such as why addiction happens at the cellular level or neuroscience theory. (June) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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