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

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.

List of contents

• 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.

Product details

• Authors: Youdin, Robert Youdin, Robert (Visiting Research Collaborator Youdin, Youdin Robert
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2023
• EAN: 9780197575024
• ISBN: 978-0-19-757502-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Addiction, Addiction & therapy, Psychotherapy, Addiction and therapy