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VIDEO: Dr. Allan Schore on Our Culture, Parenting and Preventive Mental Health Care

…the world whereby it’s pretty clear that there are going be high levels of disorganized attachments and high levels of pathology and also high levels of physical disorders later down the line. So how mental health (care) can also move now into preventive mental health (care) becomes really an important question, a larger question. The amount of secure attachments 20, 25 years ago in this country was 70%. They’re now down to 50% or 55%. There are b…

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Dr. Christine Courtois on the Voice and Childhood Trauma: VIDEO

…nd then, on top of that, with that type of negative attachment or insecure-disorganized attachment experience, they have no capacity for self-soothing or self-regulating. So they’re carrying around this painful affect and message – the voices in their head – and the voice is replaying and there’s no way to reverse it. And I think that in many ways that the suicidal patients that I’ve seen are acting that out, you know, because it’s so well interna…

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Change Your Attachment Style to Have a Better Life

What if we could identify the filter that shapes our perception of the world and change it so as to have a better life? We are born into the social context of our families and quickly need to /develop strategies to get our needs met by our caretakers. Depending on our early emotional environment, we make the best adaptation to get our needs met by the potential caretakers we have available to us, usually our parents or other relatives. We are inc…

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