“Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost loved ones to death. We are often haunted by important relationships from the past that influence us unconsciously in the present. As we work… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
“If you want to lift a hundred pounds, you don't expect to succeed the first time. You start with a lighter weight and work… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
Mind training matters. It is not just a luxury, or a supplementary vitamin for the soul. It determines the quality of every instant of… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
“Mr. L. did not get better all at once. He had first to experience cycles of separations, dreams, depressions, and insights—the repetition, or 'working… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
“He has repeatedly shown that by explaining neurological “oddities,” he can shed light on the functioning of normal brains. “I hate crowds in science,”… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
“Psychotherapy works by going deep into the brain and its neurons and changing their structure by turning on the right genes. Psychiatrist Dr. Susan… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
Everything having to do with human training and education has to be re-examined in light of neuroplasticity. — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
Language development, for instance, has a critical period that begins in infancy and ends between eight years and puberty. After this critical period closes,… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
The brain is a far more open system than we ever imagined, and nature has gone very far to help us perceive and take… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
“One of these scientists even showed that thinking, learning, and acting can turn our genes on or off, thus shaping our brain anatomy and… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
We all have what might be called a culturally modified brain, and as cultures evolve, they continually lead to new changes in the brain. — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
Thought changes structure... I saw people rewire their brains with their thoughts, to cure previously incurable obsessions and trauma. — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
“No other instinct can so satisfy without accomplishing its biological purpose, and no other instinct is so disconnected from its purpose.” — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
“Kandel argues that when psychotherapy changes people, 'it presumably does so through learning, by producing changes in gene expression that alter the strength of… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
“For children to know and regulate their emotions, and be socially connected, they need to experience this kind of interaction many hundreds of times… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
We must be learning if we are to feel fully alive, and when life, or love, becomes too predictable and it seems like there… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
