Search Results for: Polyvagal Theory

Video: Dr. John Norcross on writing Changeology

…e self-help into what they’re doing to give additional detail, to show the theory and rationale, to help with homework assignments. Sometimes self-help is used when someone’s on a waiting list. Or, it’s used on the other end to engender maintenance and generalization of change, secure the treatment. Still, other people have access to only quite brief psychotherapy and they, of course, are living like the rest of us in all of life’s vicissitudes. S…

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How Negative Thoughts Are Ruining Your Life

…concept I’m often introducing to new audiences. It’s the cornerstone of a theory and therapy technique developed by my father psychologist and author Dr. Robert Firestone. It is the basis of a book we co-authored titled Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice and the subject of many of my lectures, Webinars and my upcoming six-week eCourse “Overcome Your Inner Critic.” Why I have invested so much of my time and work into this subject is because what I…

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VIDEO: Dr. Allan Schore Explains How an Infant’s Cognitive Structure is Effected by a Mother’s Depression

…tion too, in terms of the neuroscience and also in terms of the attachment theory. The term ‘intergenerational transmission’ is a common term and you see that quite a bit. Although, just for record, I don’t think I’ve ever seen it in terms of suicide possibilities. But, as you know, there is much work now on the impact of the mother’s depression and especially if it’s long-lasting – more that 3 months in the first year of life, etc. This would sev…

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A.R.E. You There?

…texting and social media, we are all accessible all the time, at least in theory. Ironically, these can also be the very things that disconnect us from each other and give others the message that something else is that much more important. Just this week I had a couple in my office where one partner complained that, even at his birthday dinner, his partner felt compelled to respond to every text that bleeped through on her phone. “Honestly!” he e…

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VIDEO: Dr. Allan Schore on the Physiological Impact of Dissociation

…we’re looking at therefore is a situation whereby development, attachment theory, the neurobiology, incidentally this used to be called psychic structure, now we’re understanding psychic structure. Why these elements really can give a much more powerful model of psycho-pathogenesis. And that model of psycho-pathogenesis now will be critical now to the treatment model that will follow of the other side of it, etc. so we’re now looking, in my own w…

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VIDEO: Dr. Kirk Schneider on Psychological and Cultural Polarization

…ism, fascism, polarization from economic points of view, from evolutionary theory, from biological determinism. It seems to me existential, basic existential conflicts have not been in the conversation nearly enough. And I have a sense that they’re, if they’re not the core, they’re at the core of the problem, that the ultimate substrates of that kind of extremism, that fixation, is a sense of insignificance, it’s a sense of cosmic helplessness. An…

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Webinar Resources: Understanding Trauma from "Simple" to "Complex"

…and Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse: A Workshop Model (1993). Dr. Courtois has published numerous articles and chapters on related topics. She is a Founding Associate Editor of the new APA Division 56 journal, Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, & Policy. She is Co-Founder (in 1990, with Joan Turkus, MD) of The CENTER: Posttraumatic Disorders Program, Washington, DC where she served as Clinical and Training Director for 16 year…

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Complex Forms of PTSD – CE Webinar Resources

…and Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse: A Workshop Model (1993). Dr. Courtois has published numerous articles and chapters on related topics. She is a Founding Associate Editor of the new APA Division 56 journal, Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, & Policy. She is Co-Founder (in 1990, with Joan Turkus, MD) of The CENTER: Posttraumatic Disorders Program, Washington, DC where she served as Clinical and Training Director for 16 year…

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Resources from "Self-Esteem" – a Webinar with Sheldon Solomon, Ph.D.

….5 CE Credits – $35 Learn more or download here   See all upcoming free and CE Webinars from PsychAlive.org.   About Dr. Sheldon Solomon Dr. Sheldon Solomon is a psychologist and the Ross Professor for Interdisciplinary Studies at Skidmore College. He is best known for developing Terror Management Theory, along with Jeff Greenberg and Tom Pyszczynski, which is concerned with how humans deal with their own sense of mortality. Dr. Solomon is the aut…

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Dr. Christine Courtois on Violence: VIDEO

…rs of Child Sexual Abuse: A Workshop Model (1993). Dr. Courtois has published numerous articles and chapters on related topics. She is a Founding Associate Editor of the new APA Division 56 journal, Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, & Policy. She is Co-Founder (in 1990, with Joan Turkus, MD) of The CENTER: Posttraumatic Disorders Program, Washington, DC where she served as Clinical and Training Director for 16 years….

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