Quotes by Norman Doidge

Norman Doidge

…an effective psychotherapist or psychoanalyst is a “microsurgeon of the mind” who helps patients make needed alterations in neuronal networks.

Helping

Mind

Patient

After the initial critical learning period of youth is over, the areas of the brain that need to be ‘turned on’ to allow enhanced, long lasting learning can only be activated when something important, surprising, or novel occurs, or if we make the effort to pay close attention.

Effort

Knowledge

Long

All of us have worries. We worry because we are intelligent beings. Intelligence predicts, that is its essence; the same intelligence that allows us to plan, hope, imagine, and hypothesize also allows us to worry and anticipate negative outcomes.

Essence

Intelligent

Worry

Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them.

Action

Analysis

Memories

Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them. In the process they plastically retranscribe these procedural memories, so that they become conscious explicit memories, sometimes for the first time, and patients no longer need to “relive” or “reenact” them, especially if they were traumatic.

Analysis

Memories

Needs

Because it is a ‘use it or lose it’ brain, when we develop a map area [in the brain], we long to keep it activated. Just as our muscles become impatient for exercise if we’ve been sitting all day.

Exercise

Long

Use It Or Lose It

Everything having to do with human training and education has to be re-examined in light of neuroplasticity.

Education

Light

Training

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 up little by little. You actually fail to life a hundred pounds, every day, until the day you succeed. But it is in the days when you are exerting yourself that the growth is occurring.

Firsts

Growth

Littles

Ironically, some of our most stubborn habits and disorders are products of our plasticity.

Disorder

Habit

Stubborn

Language development, for instance, has a critical period that begins in infancy and ends between eight years and puberty. After this critical period closes, a person’s ability to learn a second language without an accent is limited. In fact, second languages learned after the critical period are not processed in the same part of the brain as is the native tongue.

Brain

Eight

Years

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Analysis

Ancestor

Attention

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Culture

Disorder

Education

Effort

Eight

Environment

Essence

Essentials

Exercise

Fear

Firsts

Games

Ghost

Gone

Growth

Habit

Haunting

Health

Helping

Important Relationships

Influence

Intelligent

Knowledge

Lasting Change

Life

Light

Littles

Long

Love Is

Luxury

Memories

Might

Mind

Moving

Needs

Neuroplasticity

Past

Patient

People

Reading

Saws

Soul

Speed

Stubborn

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Quotes by Norman Doidge

Norman Doidge

…an effective psychotherapist or psychoanalyst is a “microsurgeon of the mind” who helps patients make needed alterations in neuronal networks.

After the initial critical learning period of youth is over, the areas of the brain that need to be ‘turned on’ to allow enhanced, long lasting learning can only be activated when something important, surprising, or novel occurs, or if we make the effort to pay close attention.

All of us have worries. We worry because we are intelligent beings. Intelligence predicts, that is its essence; the same intelligence that allows us to plan, hope, imagine, and hypothesize also allows us to worry and anticipate negative outcomes.

Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them.

Because it is a ‘use it or lose it’ brain, when we develop a map area [in the brain], we long to keep it activated. Just as our muscles become impatient for exercise if we’ve been sitting all day.

Everything having to do with human training and education has to be re-examined in light of neuroplasticity.

Ironically, some of our most stubborn habits and disorders are products of our plasticity.

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