BEST Norman Doidge Books & Quotes of All Time (February 2023)

Why these best Norman Doidge books and not others? To stay objective, I rank all my book recommendations by a combination of what’s most loved (Goodreads rating), what’s most popular (Goodreads review count) and what’s proven timlessly relevant (first publication date).

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Until then, here are the best Norman Doidge books of all time...

Best Norman Doidge Books: The Brain That Changes Itself

1. The Brain That Changes Itself - Norman Doidge (FREE Summary)

Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

The Brain That Changes Itself is an informative and readable journey into the history, science and consequences of recent research in neuroplasticity - the brain's incredible ability to change and reorganise itself - by psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and researcher, Norman Doidge.

Published 2007 // 427 pages // Rated 4.2 over 34,200 reviews on Goodreads

Best Norman Doidge Books: The Brain's Way of Healing

2. The Brain's Way of Healing - Norman Doidge

Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity

Published 2015 // 409 pages // Rated 4.2 over 4,300 reviews on Goodreads

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Best Norman Doidge Quotes

Here are some of the best Norman Doidge of all time...

"Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost loved ones to death. We are often haunted by important relationships from the past that influence us unconsciously in the present. As we work them through, they go from haunting us to becoming simply part of our history."

- Norman Doidge, The Brain That Changes Itself

"All of us have worries. We worry because we are intelligent beings. Intelligence predicts, that is its essence; the same intelligence that allows us to plan, hope, imagine, and hypothesize also allows us to worry and anticipate negative outcomes."

- Norman Doidge, The Brain That Changes Itself

"The brain is a far more open system than we ever imagined, and nature has gone very far to help us perceive and take in the world around us. It has given us a brain that survives in a changing world by changing itself."

- Norman Doidge, The Brain That Changes Itself

"We must be learning if we are to feel fully alive, and when life, or love, becomes too predictable and it seems like there is little left to learn, we become restless - a protest, perhaps, of the plastic brain when it can no longer perform its essential task."

- Norman Doidge, The Brain That Changes Itself

"Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them. In the process they plastically retranscribe these procedural memories, so that they become conscious explicit memories, sometimes for the first time, and patients no longer need to "relive" or "reenact" them, especially if they were traumatic."

- Norman Doidge, The Brain That Changes Itself

"We see with our brains, not with our eyes."

- Norman Doidge, The Brain That Changes Itself

"If you want to lift a hundred pounds, you don't expect to succeed the first time. You start with a lighter weight and work up little by little. You actually fail to lift a hundred pounds, every day, until the day you succeed. But it is in the days when you are exerting yourself that the growth is occurring."

- Norman Doidge, The Brain That Changes Itself

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