…Join two of the founders of Terror Management Theory, Drs. Jeff Greenberg and Sheldon Solomon, for a conversation with Dr. Lisa Firestone on how fear of our own mortality is currently affecting all humans in the midst of global crisis. Subscribe to PsychAlive (it’s free!) to see more Experts at Home. …
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…this book, noted clinical psychologist Robert W. Firestone sets forth his theory — synthesizing psychodynamic and existential approaches to the psyche — underlying his voice therapy methodology. From childhood, Firestone maintains, humans are prevented from experiencing an individuated life by the pressures of society and destructive interactions within the family. The goal of Voice Therapy is to uncover the insidious forces — represented by inte…
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…ily involves exploring two main concepts: attachment theory and separation theory. Attachment Theory and Insecurity Our attachment history plays a heavy hand in the level of security we feel in life, within ourselves and in our closest relationships. The early attachment patterns we experienced with our primary caretakers serve as models for how we expect relationships to work throughout our lives, and they inform our sense of identity. If we feel…
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…ou make sense out of human destructiveness coming from a Terror Management Theory perspective? SS: Well, I think the Terror Management Theory view is fairly simple and probably incomplete as are any efforts to encapsulate the totality of human affairs. You know, we were taught by people that were our lineages. We were taught by a guy named Jack Brem and he was taught by a guy named Leon Festinger and Festinger was taught by a guy named Kurt Levine…
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…Engineering, and Anatomy and Cell Biology. Dr. Porges formed the Polyvagal Theory, a theory that links the evolution of the autonomic nervous system to the emergence of social behavior, which has stimulated research and treatments of a variety of psychiatric disorders including autism and trauma. Dr. Porges has served as President to both the Society for Psychophysiological Research and the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological and Cognitive Sci…
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…hiatrist, John Bowlby, but unlike many psychoanalytic theories, attachment theory has been vigorously researched during the past 35 years. The earliest research focused on child-parent relationships and their effects on child development and mental health. More recently, researchers have been exploring adolescent and adult attachment, with implications for relationship (e.g., marital) quality and individual well-being (both psychological and physi…
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…hiatrist, John Bowlby, but unlike many psychoanalytic theories, attachment theory has been vigorously researched during the past 35 years. The earliest research focused on child-parent relationships and their effects on child development and mental health. More recently, researchers have been exploring adolescent and adult attachment, with implications for relationship (e.g., marital) quality and individual well-being (both psychological and physi…
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…hiatrist, John Bowlby, but unlike many psychoanalytic theories, attachment theory has been vigorously researched during the past 35 years. The earliest research focused on child-parent relationships and their effects on child development and mental health. More recently, researchers have been exploring adolescent and adult attachment, with implications for relationship (e.g., marital) quality and individual well-being (both psychological and physi…
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