Sublime

During the course of treatment, orientation stands as a safe proxy for this complex, while capacity is grown for actual social engagement. The sensory system is a primary contributor to axes of interconnection and has been implicated in an fMRI study as a deficit in adults with PTSD (Leite et al., 2022).

the Consequences (C) of an Activating event (A) and our intervening Beliefs (B) involve both feelings and behaviors. That is, our emotions give rise to a course of action.

Neurobiologists tell us that it takes two things to unlock and open up a neural pathway. The first is that the implicit must be made explicit. Sometimes you need help seeing what you don’t see. But you must be open to the feedback. Second, there must be some sort of recoil, a sense of discrepancy, of “Oh no, I’m not sure I really want to keep doing

Clients with Borderline tendencies may need enhanced EMDR resourcing related to emotional regulation. Inconsistent childhood attachment is often a key component, and this type of wounding often shows up in EMDR therapy as profound deficits in adaptive information related to human needs.

In addition to the three psychological schools of thought described by Pine, recent years have seen the development of a fourth: mentalisation theory (Fonagy & Bateman, 2006). This theory reserves a central place for the ability of people to correctly assess their own and others’ mental states. People develop this ability via “attachment”, the

To facilitate AO, we must (1) reinforce the trait of a very specific form of sensory awareness, called orientation (to be elucidated momentarily), and (2) increase tolerance of pleasurable arousal and dearousal (i.e., increase what we call the window of enjoyment).

For each of those channels, there is a positive ASIM, a mirror reflection in intensity but positively valenced in the system, that has escaped detection.

Before the Polyvagal Theory, they had no explanation of some the features their clients reported.

The framework is allostasis (Barrett, 2022; Bassett & Gazzaniga, 2011; Koob & Le Moal, 2001; Lee, 2019; Sterling, 2004, 2012, 2014), a theory of organismic self-regulation according to which organisms self-regulate, not by preserving a constant internal milieu (cf. homeostasis), but by adapting their internal milieu in anticipation of future