Integrating groundbreaking research on neuroplasticity, brain development and therapeutic change, this book details a novel neurobiological and psychotherapeutic paradigm-and reveals how therapists can use this paradigm for more precise and successful treatment.

Clients arrive to therapy troubled by deeply ingrained neural circuits and emotional habits, such as "I am unlovable and incapable of love". The authors illustrate how integrating self-affirming, nonconscious emotional resources-or brain systems-changes rigid, maladaptive neural circuits. New, adaptive circuits inhibit toxic, dysfunctional patterns, releasing nonconscious emotions, such as fear, grief, guilt and shame. This allows the emergence of more complex and flexible mental functioning and produces more successful psychotherapeutic outcomes.

Developed by two psychotherapists, with more than six collective decades of experience, this model reveals treatment strategies and procedures that harness the power of neuroplasticity, enabling the patient's mind to change the structure of their brain.

About the Author
Beatriz Sheldon M.Ed, Psych. has practiced psychotherapy for forty years in four languages. Ms. Sheldon received specialized post-graduate training in short-term dynamic psychotherapy at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Director of a psychotherapy training program for advanced clinicians in Vancouver, Canada, she and Albert have researched and taught psychotherapy together for 20 years. Albert Sheldon, MD, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Washington, Seattle, has specialized in the research, practice and training of psychotherapy for 35 years. Dr. Sheldon received a Bush Medical Fellowship to study psychotherapeutic processes from a psychophysiological perspective. The development of the CIMBS paradigm is a result of the Sheldon's research and teaching experiential psychotherapy to clinicians throughout North America and Europe.


Book Information
ISBN 9780393713275
Author Beatriz Sheldon
Format Hardback
Page Count 496
Imprint WW Norton & Co
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Weight(grams) 802g
Dimensions(mm) 239mm * 165mm * 36mm