Through hopeful, astonishing stories, this book explains how mind, brain, and body work...
Norman Doidge, M.D., is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, researcher, author, essayist and poet. He is on faculty at the University of Toronto’s Department of Psychiatry, and Research Faculty at Columbia University’s Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, in New York. He lives in Toronto.
Dr Doidge served as Head of the Psychotherapy Centre and the Assessment Clinic at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry and taught in the departments of Philosophy, Political Science, Law and Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He has published on trauma, psychiatric diagnoses and intensive psychotherapies, and is the author of standards and guidelines for the practice of intensive psychotherapy that are widely used in Canada.
Dr Doidge is a frequent keynote lecturer in North America, Europe and Australia. He has been described by The Globe and Mail, as "a master at explaining science to the rest of us."
Dr Doidge, is the author of the best-selling book, The Brain That Changes Itself, which has sold over one million copies worldwide.