Bringing recent findings from social, cognitive and behavioral neuroscience together with attachment research, somatic psychology and traumatology, Lou Cozolino presents a comprehensive picture for both clients and professional therapists that convincingly explains why therapy can work.

1. The Enchanted Loom
Teasing sturdy threads from
neuroscience masterworks

2. Teasing 10 threads from
Louis Cozolino’s …

3. Thread 1:
Psychotherapy is not a modern invention, but a
relationship-based learning environment
grounded in the
history of our
social brains.
Thus the roots
go back to
mother-child
bonding ...
(pg. 17)

4. Thread 2:
Central tenets of
psychotherapy
include express-
ing the unexpressed,
making the uncon-
scious conscious,
and integrating
thoughts and
feelings.
(pg. 14)

5. Thread 3:
When children are traumatized, abused or
neglected, they grow up with states of mind,
emotions and im-
nmunological
functioning that are
incongruent with
health and long-
term survival. In
other words, what
doesn’t kill us,
makes us weaker.
(pg. 89)

6. Thread 4:
Overall, the difference between a secure
and insecure attachment style is this –
secure attach-
ments help to
regulate
arousal and
anxiety while
insecure
attachments
do not.
(pg. 105)

7. Thread 5:
Fear becomes reinforced through avoidance
and inhibited by confrontation. This is why
a decrease in
avoidance
behavior is
highly corre-
lated with
therapeutic
success.
(pg. 20)

8. Thread 6:
Core shame is stored in unconscious mem-
ory as something we never remember
learning, but
never forget –
a central
aspect of the
unthought
known.
(pg. 124)

9. Thread 7:
As we grow older,
we often forget
that we can change
our stories, and we
may become
symptomatic when
an old identity
no longer fits who
we’ve become.
(pg. 26 )

10. Thread 8:
A powerful correlate of therapeutic success
is the reduction of approach anxiety. We
practice approaching what we are afraid of
in order to retrain
our amygdala and
our sympathetic
nervous system
not to get acti-
vated by what’s
been paired with
danger.(pg. 255)

11. Thread 9:
The best way
to combat pain
is through a
combination
of anger and
vulnerability,
the two things
that shame
drives us to
avoid.
(pg. 256)

12. Thread 10:
If we go down a layer or two, below the
anger, resentment and shame, sooner or
later we all get to the fear of abandonment.
(pgs. 257)

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14. Mark Brady, PhD
TheEnchantedLoom@gmail.com
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