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Article: The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
- Article from:
- Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis
- Article date:
- October 1, 2007
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The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science by Norman Doidge New York: Viking (2007), 427 pp.
Contrast the slow, effortful process of helping an analysand to make difficult and painful connections among experiences, feelings, thoughts, and worries, with the following: "I can connect anything to anything." Paul Bach-y-Rita, a revolutionary and dogma-defying, versatile, and creative neuroscientist, who, along with his psychiatrist brother, helped their stroke-incapacitated 6 5-year-old father to get back on his feet by first crawling like a baby, was clearly motivated to try anything that might work. In the process, he discovered what ...