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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is this book garbage? A bad therapist suggested it to my teenager which I think is wildly inappropriate. [/quote]

The book is excellent. Sorry your teen's therapist was trash.

Don't take it out on the book.  :mrgreen: [/quote]

Its actually a really interesting book with a ton of science backing it up. Its a shame that many of the therapies discussed in the book were not given additional funding when the results were so great.[/quote]

Much of the science is actually not as the book presents it, alas...

[quote]It’s worth remembering that as we advance in our understanding, what we know about the brain — such a key part of what makes us human — will inevitably be revised, refined and sometimes proved wrong. The imaging revolution, starting with the invention of the positron emission tomography (PET) scanner and the MRI in the 1970s, seemed to bring neuroscience out of the dark ages. But the fMRI scan, which is just over 30 years old, has already had episodes
of comeuppance.

In 2009, a neuroscientist put a dead salmon through an fMRI and detected activity in its dead
brain, showing how easy it is to produce a false positive when sorting through the statistical noise of these scans. Beyond statistical dangers, there’s an even more fundamental problem of interpreting what fMRI scans depict. A scan can correctly identify the areas of a person’s brain that are receiving blood flow at a particular moment, but we can’t definitively say that activation of a brain region equals a particular emotional or cognitive state. An activated amygdala can be pointed to as proof of negative emotions like fear, stress or anxiety, but also positive ones, like happiness.

More recent reevaluation of fMRI scans taken while subjects are triggered to feel certain emotions — the kind that O’Connor and van der Kolk have deployed in their research and write about in their books — has further revealed their limitations. In 2020, Ahmad Hariri, a Duke University professor of psychology and neuroscience, led a team that conducted a reanalysis of 56 published academic studies based on fMRI analysis, and found that when an individual has their brain scanned in an fMRI, the results are not replicable on a second scan. You can have the same person conduct the same task while in an fMRI scanner a few months later and get a different readout of brain
activation.[/quote]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/08/02/body-keeps-score-grieving-brain-bessel-van-der-kolk-neuroscience-self-help/[/quote]

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