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“The power of positive thinking finally gains scientific credibility. Mind-bending, miracle-making, reality-busting stuff...with implications for all human beings, not to mention human culture, human learning and human history.”
-The New York Times

“Brilliant...Doidge has identified a tidal shift in basic science...The implications are monumental.”
-The London Times

“Fascinating. Doidge’s book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain.”
-Oliver Sacks, MD

“Lucid and absolutely fascinating. It satisfies in equal measure the mind and heart.”
-The Chicago Tribune

"An utterly wonderful book-without question one of the most important books about the brain you will ever read; yet it is beautifully written, immensely approachable, and full of humanity. Its message is one of hope: it is not just our brains that shape our thinking, but our thinking that, very definitely, shapes our brains."
-Iain McGilchrist MA (Oxon), BM, FRCPsych, FRSA author of The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

“Two years ago, when the journal Cerebrum at the Dana Foundation in the US updated its list of great books about the brain for the general reader, it found there were already 30,000 brain-related books in English. Aided by scientific advisers and readers, it produced a new list - with The Brain That Changes Itself at No. 1.”
-The Melbourne Age

“Doidge turns everything we thought we knew about the brain upside down.”
-Publisher’s Weekly

Note to the Reader xv
Preface xvii
A Woman Perpetually Falling...: Rescued by the Man Who Discovered the Plasticity of Our Senses 1
Building Herself a Better Brain: A Woman Labeled "Retarded" Discovers How to Heal Herself 27
Redesigning the Brain: A Scientist Changes Brains to Sharpen Perception and Memory, Increase Speed of Thought, and Heal Learning Problems 45
Acquiring Tastes and Loves: What Neuroplasticity Teaches Us About Sexual Attraction and Love 93
Midnight Resurrections: Stroke Victims Learn to Move and Speak Again 132
Brain Lock Unlocked: Using Plasticity to Stop Worries, Obsessions, Compulsions, and Bad Habits 164
Pain: The Dark Side of Plasticity 177
Imagination: How Thinking Makes It So 196
Turning Our Ghosts into Ancestors: Psychoanalysis as a Neuroplastic Therapy 215
Rejuvenation: The Discovery of the Neuronal Stem Cell and Lessons for Preserving Our Brains 245
More than the Sum of Her Parts: A Woman Shows Us How Radically Plastic the Brain Can Be 258
The Culturally Modified Brain 287
Plasticity and the Idea of Progress 313
Acknowledgments 319
Notes and References 323
Index 409

An astonishing new science called "neuroplasticity" is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable. In this revolutionary look at the brain, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Norman Doidge, M.D., provides an introduction to both the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the people whose lives they've transformed. From stroke patients learning to speak again to the remarkable case of a woman born with half a brain that rewired itself to work as a whole, The Brain That Changes Itself will permanently alter the way we look at our brains, human nature, and human potential.