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Circuit Breaking - Using Neuroscience-Informed Psychotherapy to Treat Substance Abuse

English · Hardback

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Circuit Breaking presents a comprehensive guide for clinicians to help people eliminate their substance abuse problems. Readers will learn that substance abuse is not caused by a disease, but is the consequence of their brains being chronically exposed to psychoactive substances that over time create brain circuits that drive compulsive substance abuse.

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  • PROLOGUE

  • PART I ROADS THAT PEOPLE TRAVEL THAT LEAD TO DIFFERENT TREATMENT APPROACHES FOR PSYCHOACTIVE SUBSTANCE ABUSE

  • Chapter 1 THE FORENSIC ROAD

  • Chapter 2 THE MEDICAL MODEL ROAD

  • Chapter 3 THE NEUROCIRCUITRY ROAD

  • Chapter 4 COMMONLY ABUSED PSYCHOACTIVE SUBSTANCES AND HOW THEY CREATE A NEUROCIRCUITRY OF PSYCHOACTIVE SUBSTANCE ABUSE

  • PART II PSYCHOTHERAPUETIC THEORIES, TECHNIQUES, AND HARM REDUCTION INTERVENTIONS

  • Chapter 5 TRACKING CIRCUITS

  • Chapter 6 REFRAMING COGNITIVE CONSTRUCTIONS

  • Chapter 7 BEING MINDFUL AND EXISTENTIAL

  • Chapter 8 COACHING

  • Chapter 9 SAFE ZONE

  • PART III FROM TREATMENT TO SUCCESSFUL RECOVERY

  • Chapter 10 MALIK'S JOURNEY FROM HEROIN TO NEUROSCIENCE-INFORMED PSYCHOTHERAPY

  • EPILOGUE



About the author

Robert Youdin, PhD is a Visiting Research Collaborator, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University and has a private psychotherapy practice specializing in substance abuse treatment.

Summary

Circuit Breaking presents a comprehensive guide for clinicians to help people eliminate their substance abuse problems. Readers will learn that substance abuse is not caused by a disease, but is the consequence of their brains being chronically exposed to psychoactive substances that over time create brain circuits that drive compulsive substance abuse.

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