Norman Doidge

Norman Doidge is a Canadian psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and author. “The Brain That Changes Itself” explores the brain's capacity to change through accounts of research and individual experience.

Books by Norman Doidge

The Brain That Changes Itself

Norman Doidge

The Brain That Changes Itself asks whether the adult brain is fixed or continually remade by experience. Through cases of sensory substitution, learning, addiction, injury, pain, therapy, aging, and culture, it shows how practice can restore or redirect function—and how the same plasticity can entrench harmful habits and uneven trade-offs.

9 chapters