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Brain Science And Psychotherapy:
What’s the Next Step?
Psychotherapy Networker Symposium March 21, 2014
Rick Hanson, Ph.D. The Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom
WiseBrain.org RickHanson.net
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Topics
Self-directed neuroplasticity Benefits and pitfalls of neuroscience in therapy Growing inner strengths Taking in the good
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Self-Directed Neuroplasticity
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A Neuron
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Mental activity entails underlying neural activity.
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Steadiness of Mind
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Repeated mental activity entails repeated neural activity. Repeated neural activity builds neural structure.
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Lazar, et al. 2005. Meditation experience is associated with increased cortical thickness. Neuroreport, 16, 1893-1897.
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Self-Directed Neuroplasticity
We can use the mind To change the brain To change the mind for the better To benefit ourselves and other beings.
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Benefits and Pitfalls
Of Bringing Neuroscience into Psychotherapy
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Grounding in the Brain – Benefits 1 Innovating
Neurofeedback Erasing fear memories, not just over-writing them
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Grounding in the Brain – Benefits 2 Innovating
Neurofeedback Erasing fear memories, not just over-writing them
Organizing Human DNA and brain; evolutionary neuropsychology Common ground across perspectives and practices
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Grounding in the Brain – Benefits 3 Innovating
Neurofeedback Erasing fear memories, not just over-writing them
Organizing Human DNA and brain; evolutionary neuropsychology Common ground across perspectives and practices
Motivating Concrete, in the body, physical; efforts bear tangible fruit Status of medicine, hard science
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Grounding in the Brain – Benefits 4 Innovating
Neurofeedback Erasing fear memories, not just over-writing them
Organizing Human DNA and brain; evolutionary neuropsychology Common ground across perspectives and practices
Motivating Concrete, in the body, physical; efforts bear tangible fruit Status of medicine, hard science
Highlighting Nonverbal affective and somatic processes Installation phase of learning – need to turn passing mental states into
stable neural traits for any lasting value
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We shall not cease from exploration!And the end of all our exploring!
Will be to arrive where we started!And know the place for the first time.!
!T. S. Eliot
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To see what is in front of one’s nose !takes a constant struggle.!
!George Orwell
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Grounding in the Brain – Pitfalls 1 Over-simplifying
Over-localizing function (e.g., empathy = mirror neurons) Exaggerated, compelling terms (“God-gene,” “female brain”)
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Grounding in the Brain – Pitfalls 2 Over-simplifying
Over-localizing function (e.g., empathy = mirror neurons) Exaggerated, compelling terms (“God-gene,” “female brain”)
Adding little new meaning Replacing psych terms with neuro (“the amygdala made me do it”)
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Grounding in the Brain – Pitfalls 3 Over-simplifying
Over-localizing function (e.g., empathy = mirror neurons) Exaggerated, compelling terms (“God-gene,” “female brain”)
Adding little new meaning Replacing psych terms with neuro (“the amygdala made me do it”)
Claiming authority Asserting power with clients; propelling career success
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Grounding in the Brain – Pitfalls 4 Over-simplifying
Over-localizing function (e.g., empathy = mirror neurons) Exaggerated, compelling terms (“God-gene,” “female brain”)
Adding little new meaning Replacing psych terms with neuro (“the amygdala made me do it”)
Claiming authority Asserting power with clients; propelling career success
Underestimating the mind Most big changes in psyche involve tiny changes in soma; mental plasticity
holds more promise than neural plasticity. Ducking existential choices in values; naturalistic fallacy
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Growing Inner Strengths
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Inner Strengths Include Capabilities (e.g., mindfulness, insight, emotional intelligence,
resilience, executive functions, impulse control)
Positive emotions (e.g., gratitude, self-worth, love, self-compassion, secure attachment, gladness, awe, serenity)
Attitudes (e.g., openness, determination, optimism, confidence, approach orientation, tolerance, self-respect)
Somatic inclinations (e.g., vitality, relaxation, grit, helpfulness)
Virtues (e.g., wisdom, patience, energy, generosity, restraint)
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26 Inner Strengths Are Built From Brain Structure
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Inner strengths are grown mainly from positive mental
states that are turned into positive neural traits. Change in neural structure and function (learning,
memory) involves activation and installation. We grow inner strengths by internalizing positive
experiences of them and their related factors.
Growing Inner Strengths
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Without this installation, there is no change in the
brain - no useful learning, no healing, no growth. Positive activation without installation is pleasant,
but has no lasting value. Meanwhile, negative mental states are being
preferentially installed into neural structure.
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The Brain’s Negativity Bias As our ancestors evolved, avoiding “sticks” was more important
for survival than getting “carrots.”
Negative stimuli: More attention and processing Greater motivational focus: loss aversion
Preferential encoding in implicit memory: We learn faster from pain than pleasure. Negative interactions: more impactful than positive Easy to create learned helplessness, hard to undo Rapid sensitization to negative through cortisol
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31 The Negativity Bias
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Just having positive experiences is not enough. !!They pass through the brain like water through a
sieve, while negative experiences are caught. !!This is the fundamental weakness in most
psychotherapy, human resources training, and spiritual practices.
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The same research that proves therapy works !shows no improvement in outcomes !
over the last 30 or so years.!!
Scott Miller
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We can deliberately use the mind !!
to change the brain for the better.
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Taking in the Good
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36 Learning to Take in the Good
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Have a Good Experience
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Enrich It
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“Enriching” Factors Duration
Intensity
Multimodality –perception, emotion, desire, action
Novelty
Personal relevance
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Absorb It
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Link Positive and Negative Material
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HEAL by Taking in the Good 1. Have a positive experience. Notice it or create it.
2. Enrich the experience through duration, intensity, multimodality, novelty, personal relevance.
3. Absorb the experience by intending and sensing that it is
sinking into you as you sink into it.
4. Link positive and negative material. [optional]
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Have It, Enjoy It
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Let’s Try It
Taking in the good of compassion Have the experience - bring to mind someone you care
about . . . Feel caring . . . Wish that he or she not suffer . . . Open to compassion
Enrich it
Absorb it
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It’s Good to Take in the Good Development of specific inner strengths
General - resilience, positive mood, feeling loved “Antidote experiences” – Healing wounds, filling deficits
Implicit benefits: Shows that there is still good in the world Being active rather than passive Treating yourself kindly, like you matter Training of attention and executive functions
Sensitizes brain to positive: like Velcro for good
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Research on the HEAL Process With collaborators from the University of California, a 2013 study
on the HEAL course, using a randomized waitlist control group design (46 subjects).
Course participants, compared to the control group, reported more Contentment, Self-Esteem, Satisfaction with Life, Savoring, and Gratitude.
After the course and at two month follow-up, pooled participants reported more Love, Compassion, Self-Compassion, Mind-fulness, Self-Control, Positive Rumination, Joy, Amusement, Awe, and Happiness, and less Anxiety and Depressed Mood.
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Evolutionary History
The Triune Brain
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Some Types of Resource Experiences Avoiding Harms Feeling basically alright right now Feeling protected, strong, safe, at peace The sense that awareness itself is untroubled
Approaching Rewards Feeling basically full, the enoughness in this moment as it is Feeling pleasured, glad, grateful, satisfied Therapeutic, spiritual, or existential realizations
Attaching to Others Feeling basically connected Feeling included, seen, liked, appreciated, loved Feeling compassionate, kind, generous, loving
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Pet the Lizard
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Feed the Mouse
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Hug the Monkey
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Cultivation Undoes Craving Taking in the good is an openness to experience while letting go of it.
Much suffering and harm comes from “craving” – resisting unpleasant, grasping pleasant, or clinging to heartfelt – based on a deficit or disturbance of core needs (safety, satisfaction, connection).
By repeatedly internalizing the felt sense of core needs being met, we reduce the sense of deficit or disturbance, and rest increasingly in a peace, happiness, and love that is independent of external conditions.
With time, even the practice of cultivation falls away - like a raft that is no longer needed once we reach the farther shore.
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Think not lightly of good, saying, !
"It will not come to me.”!!
Drop by drop is the water pot filled.!!
Likewise, the wise one, !gathering it little by little, !
fills oneself with good.!!
Dhammapada 9.122
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Suggested Books See www.RickHanson.net for other suggestions.
Austin, J. 2009. Selfless Insight. MIT Press. Begley. S. 2007. Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain. Ballantine. Carter, C. 2010. Raising Happiness. Ballantine. Hanson, R. (with R. Mendius). 2009. Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of
Happiness, Love, and Wisdom. New Harbinger. Johnson, S. 2005. Mind Wide Open. Scribner. Keltner, D. 2009. Born to Be Good. Norton. Kornfield, J. 2009. The Wise Heart. Bantam. LeDoux, J. 2003. Synaptic Self. Penguin. Linden, D. 2008. The Accidental Mind. Belknap. Sapolsky, R. 2004. Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers. Holt. Siegel, D. 2007. The Mindful Brain. Norton. Thompson, E. 2007. Mind in Life. Belknap.
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Key Papers - 1 See www.RickHanson.net for other scientific papers. Atmanspacher, H. & Graben, P. 2007. Contextual emergence of mental states from
neurodynamics. Chaos & Complexity Letters, 2:151-168.
Baumeister, R., Bratlavsky, E., Finkenauer, C. & Vohs, K. 2001. Bad is stronger than good. Review of General Psychology, 5:323-370.
Braver, T. & Cohen, J. 2000. On the control of control: The role of dopamine in regulating prefrontal function and working memory; in Control of Cognitive Processes: Attention and Performance XVIII. Monsel, S. & Driver, J. (eds.). MIT Press.
Carter, O.L., Callistemon, C., Ungerer, Y., Liu, G.B., & Pettigrew, J.D. 2005. Meditation skills of Buddhist monks yield clues to brain's regulation of attention. Current Biology, 15:412-413.
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Key Papers - 2 Davidson, R.J. 2004. Well-being and affective style: neural substrates and biobehavioural
correlates. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 359:1395-1411.
Farb, N.A.S., Segal, Z.V., Mayberg, H., Bean, J., McKeon, D., Fatima, Z., and Anderson, A.K. 2007. Attending to the present: Mindfulness meditation reveals distinct neural modes of self-reflection. SCAN, 2, 313-322.
Gillihan, S.J. & Farah, M.J. 2005. Is self special? A critical review of evidence from experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Psychological Bulletin, 131:76-97.
Hagmann, P., Cammoun, L., Gigandet, X., Meuli, R., Honey, C.J., Wedeen, V.J., & Sporns, O. 2008. Mapping the structural core of human cerebral cortex. PLoS Biology, 6:1479-1493.
Hanson, R. 2008. Seven facts about the brain that incline the mind to joy. In Measuring the immeasurable: The scientific case for spirituality. Sounds True.
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Key Papers - 3 Lazar, S., Kerr, C., Wasserman, R., Gray, J., Greve, D., Treadway, M., McGarvey, M.,
Quinn, B., Dusek, J., Benson, H., Rauch, S., Moore, C., & Fischl, B. 2005. Meditation experience is associated with increased cortical thickness. Neuroreport, 16:1893-1897.
Lewis, M.D. & Todd, R.M. 2007. The self-regulating brain: Cortical-subcortical feedback and the development of intelligent action. Cognitive Development, 22:406-430.
Lieberman, M.D. & Eisenberger, N.I. 2009. Pains and pleasures of social life. Science, 323:890-891.
Lutz, A., Greischar, L., Rawlings, N., Ricard, M. and Davidson, R. 2004. Long-term meditators self-induce high-amplitude gamma synchrony during mental practice. PNAS, 101:16369-16373.
Lutz, A., Slager, H.A., Dunne, J.D., & Davidson, R. J. 2008. Attention regulation and monitoring in meditation. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 12:163-169.
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Key Papers - 4 Rozin, P. & Royzman, E.B. 2001. Negativity bias, negativity dominance, and contagion.
Personality and Social Psychology Review, 5:296-320.
Takahashi, H., Kato, M., Matsuura, M., Mobbs, D., Suhara, T., & Okubo, Y. 2009. When your gain is my pain and your pain is my gain: Neural correlates of envy and schadenfreude. Science, 323:937-939.
Tang, Y.-Y., Ma, Y., Wang, J., Fan, Y., Feng, S., Lu, Q., Yu, Q., Sui, D., Rothbart, M.K., Fan, M., & Posner, M. 2007. Short-term meditation training improves attention and self-regulation. PNAS, 104:17152-17156.
Thompson, E. & Varela F.J. 2001. Radical embodiment: Neural dynamics and consciousness. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5:418-425.
Walsh, R. & Shapiro, S. L. 2006. The meeting of meditative disciplines and Western psychology: A mutually enriching dialogue. American Psychologist, 61:227-239.
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Where to Find Rick Hanson Online
Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence www.rickhanson.net/hardwiringhappiness
youtube.com/drrhanson
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Personal website: www.rickhanson.net Wellspring Institute: www.wisebrain.org