title: Gene expression and brain plasticity in stroke rehabilitation: a personal memoir of mind-body healing dreams.
abstract: In this personal memoir the author describes the progress of his rehabilitation from a stroke and the dream manifestations of his mind-body healing. He also shares his reminiscences about Erickson's physical difficulties as well as Erickson's naturalistic or activity-dependent approach to therapeutic hypnosis and rehabilitation and emphasizes what he considers the least understood and most under appreciated aspect of Erickson's hypnotherapy--the fact that his patients frequently experienced intense emotional experiences as they accessed and replayed their traumas in a therapeutic manner. He also speculates about the neural mechanisms of his healing from the standpoint of his new neuroscience theory which includes the novelty-numinosum-neurogenesis effect.
authors.affiliation: Ernest@ErnestRossi.com
authors.forename: Ernest L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Rossi
mesh_terms: D004325:Dreams; D015870:Gene Expression; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory; D008602:Mental Healing; D009473:Neuronal Plasticity / Q000502:physiology*; D011603:Psychophysiology; D000071939:Stroke Rehabilitation