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

- Norman Doidge

Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them. In the…

- Norman Doidge

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

- Norman Doidge

Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them.

- Norman Doidge

Not all activities are equal in this regard. Those that involve genuine concentration—studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, an…

- Norman Doidge

We all have what might be called a culturally modified brain, and as cultures evolve, they continually lead to new changes in the brain.

- Norman Doidge

Because it is a 'use it or lose it' brain, when we develop a map area [in the brain], we long to keep it activated. Just as our muscles become impati…

- Norman Doidge

Everything having to do with human training and education has to be re-examined in light of neuroplasticity.

- Norman Doidge

...an effective psychotherapist or psychoanalyst is a "microsurgeon of the mind" who helps patients make needed alterations in neuronal networks.

- Norman Doidge