Norman Doidge Quotes

Norman Doidge, FRCP(C), is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and author of The Brain That Changes Itself (2007) and The Brain's Way of Healing (2015). The former describes some of the latest developments in neuroscience, and became a New York Times and international bestseller.

Also known as Psychoanalyst, Author

Thought changes structure... I saw people rewire their brains with their thoughts, to cure previously incurable obsessions and trauma.

Norman Doidge
- Thought
- Structure
- Trauma
We see with our brains, not with our eyes.

Norman Doidge
- Brain
- Eye
- See

Neuroplasticity is the property of the brain that enables it to change its own structure and functioning in response to activity and mental experience.

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

Norman Doidge
Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors.

Norman Doidge
Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment.

Norman Doidge
Mind training matters. It is not just a luxury, or a supplementary vitamin for the soul. It determines the quality of every instant of our lives.

Norman Doidge
- Mind
- Soul
- Vitamin
Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them.

Norman Doidge

No other instinct can so satisfy without accomplishing its biological purpose, and no other instinct is so disconnected from its purpose.

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- Purpose
- Instinct
- Satisfy
The brain is a far more open system than we ever imagined, and nature has gone very far to help us perceive and take in the world around us. It has given us a brain that survives in a changing world by changing itself.

Norman Doidge
- World
- Brain
- Changing