…king Sense of Your Covid Story,” I’ll draw upon principles from Attachment Theory and Separation Theory to help people understand how these early adaptations affect our current responses to stress. In addition to making sense of negative experiences, it’s equally important to identify the profound moments that connected us to what matters to us. Throughout the past two years, we have all likely had instances of awe or meaning that changed us. A re…
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…e their… Learn More Viewing clinical issues through the lens of attachment theory has helped me enormously in my work with clients. Problems and dysfunction make perfect sense when viewed through this lens. Take my client Becky, for instance. (I’ve changed her name for confidentiality purposes.) Becky had a problem with drinking. She turned to drink whenever she felt anxious, stressed or overwhelmed. In her words: “It helps me numb out, and sudden…
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…the root causes of relationship anxiety Explain the concept of attachment theory and how it affects anxiety about relationships Understand how our “critical inner voice” perpetuates anxiety and insecurity Discuss valuable tools to help people cope with anxiety in their relationships While the idea of falling in love can sound blissful, relationships almost always challenge us in ways we don’t expect. Anxiety can arise at various points in a relat…
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…ies 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 inspired by the ideas of Earnest Becker. Dr. Solomon is the author or co-author of more than 100 articles and several books, including In the Wake of 9-11: The Psychology of Terror. In this DVD, Dr. Sheldon Solomon addresses a variety of topics co…
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…d candid style, Dr. Solomon discusses the development of Terror Management Theory, the ways in which people form defenses against death anxiety and the concept of life affirming death awareness, arguing that we can “accept the reality of the human condition and parlay that into bringing out the best in us. ” He also addresses the societal effects of death awareness, including the social nature of human beings, the role of education and government,…
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…t’s been voiced. Well, I’m really taken by Jennifer Frye’s Betrayal Trauma Theory and really think that there’s a lot to be said for that in terms of with incestuous abuse in particular, but any kind of intimate abuse, that there is a significant betrayal. And once you realize that, that in and of itself is psychologically traumatic and traumatizing. So sometimes, it’s not exactly what happened, but with whom? by whom? And that it’s often premedit…
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…d candid style, Dr. Solomon discusses the development of Terror Management Theory, the ways in which people form defenses against death anxiety and the concept of life affirming death awareness, arguing that we can “accept the reality of the human condition and parlay that into bringing out the best in us. ” He also addresses the societal effects of death awareness, including the social nature of human beings, the role of education and government,…
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…d candid style, Dr. Solomon discusses the development of Terror Management Theory, the ways in which people form defenses against death anxiety and the concept of life affirming death awareness, arguing that we can “accept the reality of the human condition and parlay that into bringing out the best in us. ” He also addresses the societal effects of death awareness, including the social nature of human beings, the role of education and government,…
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…relationship between imprisonment and murder will suffice to show that the theory that the increase in imprisonment led to the decrease in murder is contradicted by the facts. Let me explain. In 1970, when our imprisonment rate was still about 100 per 100,000 Americans, exactly where it had been for the first three quarters of the century, our age-adjusted murder rate was 8.3. By 1985 our imprisonment rate had doubled, to about 200 per 100,000. Wh…
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…d candid style, Dr. Solomon discusses the development of Terror Management Theory, the ways in which people form defenses against death anxiety and the concept of life affirming death awareness, arguing that we can “accept the reality of the human condition and parlay that into bringing out the best in us. ” He also addresses the societal effects of death awareness, including the social nature of human beings, the role of education and government,…
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