How therapists make art out of life. by Michael Alcee Ph.D. Originally posted in Psychology Today, May 15th, 2022 “Who, me, an artist? But I’m not going to drop an album, release a book, or be in a movie anytime soon.” Yes, you, an artist! Hear me out before you wave this one away, as Irvin Yalom did when I … Read More

An Integrative Guide to Neurobiology, Attachment, Regulation, and Discipline by Elizabeth Sylvester and Kat Scherer Across psychological theories, the relationship between child and parent is acknowledged as a powerful and enduring influence in a child’s emotional life. Here we review and discuss the robust research and accrued theoretical wisdom of our clinical community regarding the parent-child relationship. Children’s abiding developmental … Read More

Iain McGilchrist “Yes, a key can lie forever in the place where the locksmith left it, and never be used to open the lock the master forged it for.” Ludwig Wittgenstein This book is an attempt to convey a way of looking at the world quite different from the one that has largely dominated the West for at least three … Read More

Last Word Let’s talk about this word “science”. Richard Hill Words are curious things. They are a symbolic artefact that we use to send a representation of what is in our thinking across the “social synapse” to another person or people who, in the miracle of “communication”, are able to share thoughts and ideas. That is amazing! But one of … Read More

Abstract The spread of the sarsCov2 virus presents an unprecedented event that rapidly introduced widespread life threat, economic de-stabilization, and social isolation. The human nervous system is tuned to detect safety and danger, integrating body and brain responses via the autonomic nervous system. Polyvagal Theory provides a perspective to understand the impact of the pandemic on mental and physical health. … Read More

by Lynn Redenbach IPNB’s relevance to leadership has been proposed and written about by scholars and practitioners. However, up to now there has been no empirical research to help illuminate what they are doing, and how leaders and leadership consultants, are approaching their work from this perspective. In addition, there has not been a clear understanding about the implications IPNB … Read More

“This is the greatest discovery of the scientific enterprise: You take hydrogen gas, and you leave it alone, and it turns into rosebushes, giraffes, and humans.” Brian Swimme, evolutionary cosmologist Professor at California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, California These words from Brian Swimme may help us find a place to stand as we contemplate ways we can lean … Read More

Excerpted from THE INNER WORK OF RACIAL JUSTICE, by Rhonda V. Magee, published by TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. Copyright © 2021 by Rhonda V. Magee. Raising Awareness of Our Internalized Woundedness When I talk about race with other people of color, we usually focus on the ways in which we … Read More

By Mark Baumann, 2021 The attachment system is a survival system. It’s one of our many survival systems, similar to the fight-flight-freeze and larger polyvagal system. Perhaps one way those two systems differ is that attachment experiences have been found to have life span impact on patterns of human communication and information processing. One of attachment’s unique benefits is that … Read More