Norman Doidge Quotes
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Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors.
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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.
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Ironically, some of our most stubborn habits and disorders are products of our plasticity.
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Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment.
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Thought changes structure... I saw people rewire their brains with their thoughts, to cure previously incurable obsessions and trauma.
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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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We see with our brains, not with our eyes.
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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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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.
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Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them.