Beatriz and Albert Sheldon have spent the last 20 years developing the
novel therapeutic paradigm called Complex Integration of Multiple Brain
Systems (CIMBS). They have pioneered new methodology for reading and
assessing emotional states using their patients' carefully observed
psychophysiological phenomena as empirical evidence. CIMBS also
incorporates the latest groundbreaking research on neuroplasticity,
brain development, and therapeutic change. This book details their novel
neurobiological and psychotherapeutic paradigm--and reveals how
therapists can use it for more successful treatment.
Clients come to therapy troubled by deeply ingrained neural circuits and
emotional habits. The authors demonstrate how they use
psychophysiological perspectives to recognize limitations in brain
systems that are interfering with their patients' functioning. And
through "physiopsychotherapy," they activate self-affirming,
nonconscious emotional resources to change rigid, maladaptive neural
circuits. CIMBS offers a way of "integrating" these [brain system]
resources to foster more complex and flexible mental functioning and to
produce more successful psychotherapeutic outcomes. The therapeutic
attachment relationship between therapist and patient, and "present
moment" experiences within the session rather than recollections of past
trauma, are key elements in this unique emotional resource-based mode of
therapy.
This book is wide-ranging in documenting CIMBS' success at
operationalizing neuroscience research. Translating their academic,
scientific, and clinical research and successful training courses into a
reference work that you can hold in your hands and savor at leisure, the
Sheldons have produced an approachable, intriguing, yet comprehensive
milestone in the psychotherapeutic literature.
