The Brain has a Mind of its Own: Attachment, Neurobiology, and the New Science of Psychotherapy [Paperback]

Describing the neuroscientific basis for effective psychotherapy, Professor Holmes draws on the Free Energy Principle, which holds that, through active inference -- agency and model revision -- the brain minimises discrepancies between incoming experience and its pre-existing picture of the world. Difficulties with these processes underlie clients need for psychotherapeutic help. Based on his relational borrowed brain model, and deploying his capacity to communicate complex ideas to a wide audience, Holmes shows us how the talking cure reinstates active inference and thus how therapy helps bring about change.

This pioneering text provides a deep theoretical explanation for how psychotherapy helps sufferers overcome trauma, redress relationship difficulties and ameliorate depression.?

Introduction
1 The free energy principle
2 Psychoanalytic resonances
3 Relational neuroscience
4 Free energy and psychopathology
5 Uncoupling top-down/bottom-up automaticity
6 FEP and attachment
7 Therapeutic conversations
8 Practical implications for psychotherapists
Epilogue
Glossary of terms
Acknowledgements
References
Index

'Professor Holmes is doing something important here, which is to bring psychoanalysis up to date in the light of what is now known about how brains grow and change in complexity across the life span and in different environments and situations. [...] Jeremy Holmes has worked in the field of complex relational psychopathology for over thirty years and his experience and compassion shines through and illuminates theories that are not easy to follow. I liked this book before it was published and I like it now.'

'This book is a visionary tour de force. It will serve as a guide to every clinicians thinking. It takes a significant step towards realizing Freudlƒ(