Norman Doige, MD: The Brain's Way of Healing

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For centuries it was believed that the price we paid for our brain’s complexity was that, compared with other organs, it was fixed and unregenerative — unable to recover mental abilities lost because of damage or disease. Dr. Doidge explains how the brain’s capacities are highly dynamic, and how its very sophistication makes possible a unique and gentle kind of healing. He describes natural, noninvasive avenues into the brain provided by the forms of energy around us—light, sound, vibration, movement—that can pass through our senses and our bodies to awaken the plastic brain’s own transformative capacities without surgery or medication and their unpleasant side effects or risks. Neuroplastic therapies can be used to address many common conditions and to offer hope where prospects for healing were long denied.

Dr. Doidge is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and New York Times bestselling author. He is on the research faculty at Columbia University’s Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, and on the faculty of the University of Toronto’s Department of Psychiatry. He is the author of The Brain That Changes Itself, and the new book, The Brain’s Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity.