A pioneer of CBT explores recent advances in neuroscience, showing how they can be applied in practice to improve the effectiveness of cognitive therapy for clients with a wide range of diagnoses including mood disorders, anxiety disorders, eating disorders and schizophrenia
- Utilizes the latest advances in neuroscience to introduce tools that allow clinicians, for the first time, to directly &;measure' the effectiveness of cognitive therapy interventions
- Rigorously based in neuroscientific research, yet designed to be readable and jargon-free for a professional market of CBT practitioners
- Covers theory, assessment, and the treatment of a wide range of specific disorders including anxiety disorders, mood disorders, eating disorders, addictions and schizophrenia
- Written by a respected pioneer in the field
Foreword by Arthur Freeman xiii Preface xix Acknowledgments xxi List
of Abbreviations xxiii Introduction 1 Part I Neuroscience in Context 1
Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, and Cognitive Therapy 5 2 The Mind
Brain Problem 11 3 Motor Theories of Mind and a Complex Biocybernetic Model
in Neuroscience 20 4 Complexity, Chaos, and Dynamical Systems 27 4.1
Introduction 27 4.2 Complexity 27 4.3 Chaos Theory 29 4.4 Complex Systems
30 4.5 From Complexity to a Neuroscience-based Cognitive Therapy 32 5
Modular and Gradiental Brain, Coalitional Mind 35 5.1 Introduction 35 5.2
The Modular and Gradiental Brain 37 5.3 The Social Brain 41 5.4 The Central
Nervous System, Neurovegetative Nervous System, and Visceral Brain 44 5.4.1
The Neurovegetative Nervous System 44 5.4.2 The Visceral Brain 46 5.5
Paleognosis and Neognosis in theMind of Homo sapiens 47 5.6 Memory 48 5.7
Internal Representational Systems 51 5.7.1 Imagery 52 5.7.2 Internal Dialog
54 5.8 Knowledge Processes 54 5.9 Coalitional Processes 62 6 Phylogenesis
of the Brain and Ontogenesis of the Mind: Biological and Cultural
Evolutionism 70 6.1 The Reptilian Brain: The Archipallium 76 6.2 The Limbic
System: The Paleopallium 76 6.3 Brain Structures of Less Evolved Mammals:
The Neopallium 77 6.4 Specialized Frontal Lobes 77 Part II Clinical
Psychophysiology and its Parameters 7 Psychophysiology and Clinical
Psychophysiology 83 8 Electroencephalography and Quantitative
Electroencephalography 86 8.1 Electroencephalography 86 8.2 Quantitative
Electroencephalography 91 9 Electrodermal Activity and Quantitative
Electrodermal Activity 96 9.1 Electrodermal Activity and its Recording 96
9.2 Computer-Aided Analysis of Electrodermal Activity and Quantitative
Electrodermal Activity 103 9.3 Reference Database 107 9.4 Evoked
Electrodermal Responses 111 9.5 Effects of Psychoactive Drugs on
Electrodermal Activity 111 10 Complex Psychological Diagnosis and
Instrumental Psychodiagnostics 116 10.1 Introduction 116 10.2 Functional
Diagnosis 118 10.3 Instrumental Psychodiagnostics 120 10.4 The Contribution
of Neuroscience to a Complex Diagnosis 120 Part III
Neuroscience-basedMethods in the Clinical Setting 11 Complex Psychological
Diagnosis with Quantitative Electroencephalography 125 11.1 Introduction 125
11.2 Dementia 126 11.3 Schizophrenia 129 11.4 Depression 132 11.5 Mania
133 11.6 Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder 133 11.7
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder 133 12 Complex Psychological Diagnosis with
Quantitative Electrodermal Activity 135 12.1 General Aspects 135 12.2 Data
Regarding Specific Clinical Disorders 139 13 Sets and Settings when Applying
a Neuroscience-based Clinical Methodology 145 14 Multimodal Assessment of
Family Process and the Family Strange Situation 152 14.1 The Family
Strange Situation Procedure 154 15 Biofeedback, Neurofeedback, and
Psychofeedback 156 15.1 Theoretical Foundation and Historical Development
156 15.2 Physiological and Psychophysiological Biofeedback 163 15.3
Biofeedback and Cognitive Therapy 165 15.4 MindLAB Set-based Coping Skills
Training 168 15.5 Relaxation, Self-Control, Self-Regulation 168 16
Meditation, Mindfulness, and Biofeedback-based Mindfulness (BBM) 171 16.1
Meditation 171 16.1.1 Types of Meditation 171 16.2 Mindfulness 175 16.3
Biofeedback-Based Mindfulness 177 17 Neurofeedback and Cognitive Therapy 180
17.1 Insomnia 180 17.2 Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder 183 17.3 Attention
Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder 186 17.4 Depression 187 17.5 Mania 187 17.6
Drug Dependency 187 18 Psychofeedback and Cognitive Therapy 189 18.1 Mental
Disorders 190 18.2 Psychosomatic Disorders 192 18.3 Meditation,
Mindfulness, Music Therapy 193 19 Monitoring theWarning Signs of Relapse in
Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder, and Coping with Them 194 19.1
Introduction 194 19.2 Schizophrenia 194 19.3 Bipolar Disorder 196 19.4
Coping with Prodromal Symptoms of Relapse in Psychosis 196 20 Get Started
with Neuroscience-based Cognitive Therapy 197 References 199 Index 217
Professor Tullio Scrimali is a pioneer of clinical psychophysiology and cognitive therapy, recognized for his contribution to the discipline worldwide. He was a founding fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy (ACT), and obtained the first Chair of Cognitive Therapyat the University of Catania, Sicily, where he currently directs the European School of Cognitive Therapy (ALETEIA International).
