Do you want to improve your relationships and experience lasting personal change? Join Curt Thompson, M.D., on an amazing journey to discover the surprising pathways for transformation hidden inside your own mind. Integrating new findings in neuroscience and attachment with Christian spirituality, Dr. Thompson reveals how it is possible to rewire your mind, altering your brain patterns and literally making you more like the person God intended you to be. Explaining discoveries about the brain in layman’s terms, he shows how you can be mentally transformed through spiritual practices, interaction with Scripture, and connections with other people. He also provides practical exercises to help you experience healing in areas where you’ve been struggling. Insightful and challenging, "Anatomy of the Soul" illustrates how learning about one of God’s most miraculous creations—your brain—can enrich your life, your relationships, and your impact on the world around you.

Since man was created “in the image of God,” each organ of the human body has a spiritual as well as physical meaning. Based on Rebbe Nachman of Breslov's teachings, this fascinating study uncovers the mystical connection between each aspect of the human body – the skeletal and muscular system, the circulatory and respiratory systems, the reproductive system, and more – and the Ten Sefirot, plus the five levels of the soul. Heighten your awareness of the awesome spiritual power you have at your fingertips, and in all your other limbs as well.

Is there a Soul that persists after death? Anatomy of the Soul: Mind, God, and the Afterlife presents a new approach to the subject, based on an in-depth analysis of how the mind arises from the brain. While the mind is integrally associated with the brain, Dr. Goldberg, a neuroscientist who has taught the subject of neuroanatomy for 25 years explains that there is an aspect of Mind that may continue despite the loss of the brain. The theory clarifies numerous issues within the field of consciousness study and provides insights into the nature of quantum physics, free will, God, and the question of immortality of the mind.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Cara was a thirty-something woman who came to see me because she was struggling with depression. She had friends, but much of what they had already achieved served only to remind her of what she had not. She was single and longing for a committed relationship, but she saw herself as less than desirable. #2 The key to healing from the Western world’s emphasis on knowledge over being known is to focus on being known by God and others. To fully engage your relationship with God, it is most helpful to be aware of the patterns by which you have attached to your primary caregivers. #3 The mind, when left to its own volition, tends to disconnect. It often conspires to hide the truth from ourselves and others. We then suffer the personal and communal consequences. To have an integrated mind, we must attend to the various functions of the mind and experience God’s mercy and justice in the context of a community that is both differentiated and integrated. #4 The brain and interpersonal relationships are constantly shaping each other, and this is a reflection of the oral tradition, the stories, poetry, and instruction in the Scriptures, and the experiences of the people of God for nearly four thousand years.

What Is The Soul? This book examines the nature of the soul through the eyes of philosophers, scientists, artists, writers and saints. The concept of the soul has been explored from ancient times until our own. The soul has been recognized as both mystery and powerful force, and remains an issue of consequence. It is as relevant today as it has ever been.

One of the most important contributions of Chasidut to Judaism has been in the realm of psychology. Chasidic teachings interpret and apply the myriad Kabbalistic metaphors to the realm of the human psyche and soul. Yet, for all the expansive analyses and discussion of the human psyche produced by the Chasidic masters (specifically the Rebbes of Chabad-Lubavitch), there has been a pronounced lack of an ordered and modern review of the psyche. In the early years of the 20th century, Dr. Fischel Schneersohn, a colleague of Sigmund Freud and a relative of the then Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Shalom Dov Ber Schneersohn, took it upon himself to translate the Chasidic nomenclature and discourse on the psyche into scientific language that would be useful to the modern psychologist. Unfortunately, for whatever the reasons may be, his yearning to share the Torah s wisdom on the psyche was not to be fulfilled. Since then, the need for introducing these teachings to the public in general and to the professional field of psychologists has only grown. This book is an important contribution to the creation of psychology and therapeutic techniques based purely on the Divine wisdom of the Torah and specifically its inner dimensions of Kabbalah and Chassidut. By offering a structured review and explanation of the psyche and its place in the larger and more complex super-structure of the soul, this volume provides a foundational guide for mental and spiritual health practitioners as well as for those wishing to deepen their understanding of Kabbalah and Chassidut.

Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist IVP Readers' Choice Award We are people of desire. In The Soul of Desire, psychiatrist Curt Thompson suggests that underneath all our longings is the desire to be known—and what's more, that this fundamental yearning manifests itself in our deep need to make things of beauty, revealing who we are to others. Desire and beauty go hand in hand. But both our craving to be known and our ability to create beauty have been marred by trauma and shame, collapsing our imagination for what God has for us and blinding us to the possibility that beauty could ever emerge from our ashes. Drawing on his work in interpersonal neurobiology and clinical practice, Thompson presents a powerful picture of the capacity of the believing community to reshape our imaginations, hold our desires and griefs together, and invite us into the beauty of God’s presence. The Soul of Desire is a mature, creative work, weaving together neuroscience and spiritual formation to open up new horizons for thinking not only about the nature of the mind, but about what it means to be human.