"Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst & Neuroplasticity Pioneer"
Norman Doidge, M.D., is a Canadian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst on faculty at the University of Toronto's Department of Psychiatry and Columbia University's Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. His clinical practice repeatedly confronted him with patients who defied standard prognoses, leading him to investigate the emerging science of neuroplasticity. The Brain That Changes Itself became a New York Times bestseller translated into more than 100 languages. His follow-up, The Brain's Way of Healing (2015), extended his work into non-pharmacological treatment of neurological conditions.
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A groundbreaking narrative by psychiatrist Norman Doidge showing that the adult brain retains the ability to reorganise and rewire itself throughout life…
Read Summary →The adult brain continuously reorganises itself in response to experience and practice — the fixed-brain assumption was wrong.
Deliberately changing how you think about your thoughts produces physical changes in brain circuits — as demonstrated in OCD treatment.
A groundbreaking narrative by psychiatrist Norman Doidge showing that the adult brain retains the ability to reorganise and rewire itself throughout life — and what that means for healing, learning, and who you become.
