Changing Habits of Mind

Changing Habits of Mind presents a theory of personality that integrates homeostatic dynamics of the brain with self-processes, emotionality, cultural adaptation, and personal reality.

Zoltan Gross has been practicing long-term intensive psychotherapy with adults since 1954. He has consulted and taught as an assistant clinical professor at UCLA Medical School and served as director of research for two hospitals and clinical director at a mental health center. At age 100, he continues to train psychotherapists in his innovative brain-based theory of personality.

Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Dyad: Adventures in Psychotherapy's Wonderland 2. The Paradigmatic Shift: The Tyranny of Habits of Mind 3. A Theory of the Mind 4. The Ghost in the Machine 5. The "I" and its Psychological Selves: Without Our Navigator We Can't Be Sure of Where We Are Going 6. What Feelings and Emotions Really Are! 7. Emotions and Feeling 8. A Portrait of the Person 9. The Art of Psychotherapy Appendix Bibliography Index