Topics addressed include: Cognitive, emotional, and sensorimotor dimensions of information processing - modulating arousal - dyadic regulation and the body - the orienting response - defensive subsystems - adaptation and action systems - treatment principles - skills for working with the body in present time - developing somatic resources for stabilization - processing
Topics addressed include: Cognitive, emotional, and sensorimotor dimensions of information processing - modulating arousal - dyadic regulation and the...
Over the course of his esteemed career, he has received funding for hundreds of key studies in the US and abroad on normal and abnormal infant and child development--including his Mutual Regulation Model and Still-Face Paradigm, which revolutionized our understanding of infants' emotional capacities and coping--all of which led to critical contributions in the field. Much of his work serves as the benchmark for how mental health clinicians think about biopsychosocial states of consciousness, the process of meaning making, and how and why we engage with others in the world.
Now, for the...
Over the course of his esteemed career, he has received funding for hundreds of key studies in the US and abroad on normal and abnormal infant and chi...
Through play, as children, we learn the rules and relationships of culture and expand our tolerance of emotions--areas of life "training" that overlap with psychotherapy. Here leading writers such as Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Daniel J. Siegel, Jaak Panksepp, Allan Schore, Pat Ogden, and Louis Cozolino illuminate what play and creativity mean for the healing process at any stage of life.
Through play, as children, we learn the rules and relationships of culture and expand our tolerance of emotions--areas of life "training" that overlap...
Since publication of that book, Stephen Porges has been urged to make these ideas more accessible andThe Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory is the result. Constructs and concepts embedded in polyvagal theory are explained conversationally in The Pocket Guide and there is an introductory chapter which discusses the science and the scientific culture in which polyvagal theory was originally developed. Publication of this work enables Stephen Porges to expand the meaning and clinical relevance of this groundbreaking theory.
Since publication of that book, Stephen Porges has been urged to make these ideas more accessible andThe Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory...
Although clinicians use concepts such as the unconscious and dissociation, in actuality many do not take into account the newly emerging neuropsychological attributes of nonconscious processes. As a result, assumptions and lack of clarity overtake information that can become central in our clinical work This revolutionary book presents a new model of the unconscious, one that is continuing to emerge from the integration of neuropsychological research with clinical experience Drawing from clinical observations of specific therapeutic cases, affect theory, research into cognitive neuroscience...
Although clinicians use concepts such as the unconscious and dissociation, in actuality many do not take into account the newly emerging neuropsycholo...
A fresh take on contemporary brain science, this book presents neuroscience--the scientific study of brain, mind, and behavior--in easy-to-understand ways with a focus on concepts of interest to all science readers. Rigorous and detailed enough to use as a textbook in a university or community college class, it is at the same time meant for any and all readers, clinicians and non-clinicians alike, interested in learning about the foundations of contemporary brain science. From molecules and cells to mind and consciousness, the known and the mysterious are presented in the context of the...
A fresh take on contemporary brain science, this book presents neuroscience--the scientific study of brain, mind, and behavior--in easy-to-understand ...
This book presents recent knowledge, research, and theory about the earliest developmental period--from conception to birth--which holds even greater consequences for the health and development of the human organism than was previously understood. Theory and research in multiple disciplines provide the foundation for the exploration of how experiences during conception and time in the womb; during and after birth; and experiences with caregivers and the family system in the early postnatal period impact an individual physically, cognitively, emotionally, and socially over their life...
This book presents recent knowledge, research, and theory about the earliest developmental period--from conception to birth--which holds even great...
