Norman Doidge The Brain's Way Of Healing

The brain’s way of healing: Discovery from neuroplasticity

It was once believed that the brain was too sophisticated and too complex, and that with evolution, it lost the ability to restore functions, repair itself or to preserve itself. Norman Doidge, a Canadian-born psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, and also the author of “The Brain that Challenges itself”, and “The Brain’s Way of Healing”, came up with the discovery that the brain can change its structure and function in response to mental experience. This phenomenon is known as neuroplasticity, and he has, through his book, The Brain’s Way of Healing (2015), shows how neuroplasticity really heals and works.

It is primarily aimed at the patients who suffer from ailments like where people could have lost the ability to walk for years but have yet recovered through this method, or children with learning disorders, Parkinson’s disease etc. who can be treated through simple approaches. There are many cases where children suffering from autism, and other such illness of the like and the advent of neuroplasticity offers hope and recovery to these people and children.

Doidge served as the Head of the Psychotherapy centre

The brain, unlike how we perceive, is not hardwired or programmed. Neuroplasticity acts as a ray of hope in challenging this old belief and extends our understanding of the healthy brain and human nature. The book brings out many case studies which deal with amazing and startling progress made by brain, whose conditions were dismissed as lost cases. Doidge also observes this changing brain to understand the phenomenon of sex, love, culture, education etc. This one is a truly inspiring book that will change the way you look at human possibility and gives you a deeper understanding of the workings of brain. More than everything it generates