Posting mainly research and therapy insights Check out my books eg Respark here

@scotusanalyst Interesting. Do say more?

books and courses for sale if anyone can be tempted? trying to go non-amazon

Slightly surprising ..the association between childhood adversity and hippocampal volumes is moderated by romantic relationship experiences . I thought trauma = smaller hippocampi in adulthood? would relationship breakups not be a consequence not cause?

Come to a day's talk on Respark this Friday for adoption plus, please come along or let people know , it will be looking at issues such as neglect, dissociation, numbed shut-down states in children. details here and booking

nice to be cited in this Literature and the therapeutic imagination. Adoption, Charles Dickens and psychoanalysis -

another interesting Feldman Barratt critique of how we define emotions Exploring Theory-Laden Observations in the Brain Basis of Emotional Experience -

a very interesting study showing that adhd is linked with earlier mortality. How do we explain this? Is it a link with trauma? More stress and faster metabolisms and life-course as in life history theory?

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hmm.. hope so ....Niceness is a distinct psychological trait and linked to heightened happiness

nice to be cited in this although it needs so much more thinking

phew!

research showing what we know. Less good relationships = more social media and phubbing. So are posts like this bad for us?

makes sense but new to me, and I think important. Adverse childhood experiences link to defensive gun use via threat system and depressive symptoms : There is and will be more increased threat sensitivity for so many reasons , ..

This looks like an excellent edition..An introduction to twenty-five years of adverse childhood experiences:...

Pleased that my online courses are picking up and now getting some lovely reviews. Do have a look, there are 4 now, prenatal and postnatal life, culture and play and planning one on the brain for very soon:

Nice to be refenced in this very interesting new book ..A Polyvagal Informed Approach to Therapeutic Work with Children and Young People - out in a few weeks

I hate these kinds of headlines. It assumes individual impairment, not the impact of #stress, #trauma, #poverty or #ACEs for example, let alone big tech! 'Compulsive shopping is characterized by impairment in self-reported executive function'

I just wish the effects of oxytocin up the nose lasted more than a few minutes! Oxytocin increases moral decision-making

@elonmusk There is zero evidence there has been an increase in sexual abuse and grooming. People are also more aware of it than ever. And most sexual abuse is and has long been perpetrated by known adults, often within the family.