Their most important contribution, however, lies in the questions Cozolino believes therapists should ask themselves.
Cozolino writes for the therapist who is past training and well into practice, taking up the concerns of a working clinical life rather than its foundations. Framed as a sequel to The Making of a Therapist, the book treats the practitioner's own mind as an instrument that keeps changing, and asks how attention, curiosity, and self-knowledge mature once technique is no longer the problem.
Drawing on interpersonal neurobiology, Cozolino moves between clinical craft and the inner life of the person doing the work. He examines free-floating attention, listening with the third ear, the states of mind a session moves through, and the slow mechanics of change, alongside contemporary demands such as executive functioning difficulties and compulsive internet use.
Running underneath is the claim that a therapist's growth and a client's are bound together, and that continued supervision, reading, and honest self-examination are part of the job, not extras to it.
About the author
Louis Cozolino
Louis Cozolino is an American clinical psychologist and Professor of Psychology at Pepperdine University's Graduate School of Education and Psychology in Los Angeles, where he has taught since 1986. He holds a PhD in clinical psychology from UCLA and a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard. His work connects neuroscience with psychotherapy, attachment and human relationships, and he is the author of The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy. Alongside teaching, he maintains a clinical and consulting practice in Los Angeles.
Details
- 2021
- W. W. Norton
- W. W. Norton
- 240
- 9780393713954