Sublime

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 futur

Trauma work with clients with complex trauma is more than simply treating their trauma and discharging them for having met their goals. It’s helping them launch in ways that are sustainable. It’s helping their new unmortgaged nervous systems have experiences that help clarify who they are, what they are worth, and how they deserve to be treated. It

This scaffolding of states that naturally connect and sequence from one to the other rebuilds continuity of states. This defines integration: the return to continuity of states.

Patients actively use therapy to establish the conditions that will make it safe enough for them to confront their painful and irrational beliefs and feelings. On the simplest level, they seek to be understood, and when they succeed, as Carl did, they begin to feel safe.

Those new disciplines are neuroscience, the study of how the brain supports mental processes; developmental psychopathology, the study of the impact of adverse experiences on the development of mind and brain; and interpersonal neurobiology, the study of how our behavior influences the emotions, biology, and mind-sets of those around us.

Aligned with this new direction, breakthroughs in our understanding of the prefrontal cortex, limbic system, and brainstem have revealed the human brain to be much more geared to social cognition, social

with the various aspects of a perceptual tool designed to integrate charged emotion. This tool is called “the emotional integration procedure.”