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Neurocognitive and Behavioral Therapy was developed in the 1980s Dr. Jacques Fradin and his team at the Institute of Environmental Medicine. It provides an understanding of psychological and psychiatric disorders based on recent multidisciplinary knowledge in cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, ethology, and other related fields. This approach offers an understanding of the human psyche and integrates its different levels of functioning:

  1. The instinctive levels which includes the states of stress (flight: agitation, anxiety; fight: annoyance, anger; inhibition: dejection, discouragement) and instinctive self-affirmation (assertiveness issues: lack or excess of self-affirmation).

  2. The automatic level, where the heart of our consciousness and our personality is located as well as our conditioning, blockages, avoidance and compensatory behaviors.

  3. The adaptive level, associated with the functioning of our prefrontal neocortex, our "full consciousness" or "enlightened consciousness", space of our freedom, our capacities for acceptance, creativity, our ability to step back, emotional management, empathy, rational reflection, individualization etc.

Specific therapeutic tools have been developed to treat (when they are problematic) the psychological and psychopathological processes associated with these three levels of functioning. The therapeutic tools used in Neurocognitive and Behavioral Therapy are also part of the three waves of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy (CBT):

  1. Behavioral, in which the exposure tools (behavioral) and those of self-affirmation are included

  2. Cognitive, with cognitive tools allowing us to change our outlook on a situation

  3. Emotional, based on acceptance and full consciousness, with the tools of Mental Mode Management, used in particular for stress management and creativity. 

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​Pedagogy (psychoeducation) plays an important part in Neurocognitive and Behavioral Therapy. Identifying the processes that make us suffer, verbalizing and naming  them, discovering their universal dimension, often allows an initial appeasement before even beginning to treat these processes.

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In 2024, I obtained a post master degree in Neurocognitive and Behavioral Therapy from the University of Burgundy, France.

Références : https://www.deboecksuperieur.com/ouvrage/9782804185220-la-therapie-neurocognitive-et-comportementale https://www.eyrolles.com/Accueil/Livre/l-intelligence-du-stress-9782212574661/

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