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Dr. Miller is also well-known for his work of conceptualizing schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders through the lens of dissociation. His book EMDR for Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses is a master class in looking at the history of diagnosis within the psychiatric professions in a more dissociation-informed way. When asked to differentiate t

The nonlinear associative nature of our brains makes it impossible for us to consciously search our memories in an orderly way.

Frederick’s findings suggest that the characters of our psychodrama have different “personalities.” System 1 is impulsive and intuitive; System 2 is capable of reasoning, and it is cautious, but at least for some people it is also lazy. We recognize related differences among

No matter how much insight and understanding we develop, the rational brain is basically impotent to talk the emotional brain out of its own reality.

The DLPFC tells us how our present experience relates to the past and how it may affect the future—you

acid, is a neurotransmitter that plays an important role in the prefrontal inhibition of subcortical firing, and she had imagined it as

We discovered that different deep emotional centers in the brain just above and behind the amygdala, called the striatum—associated with impulsivity and reward, and bathed by the chemical dopamine—had become hyperactive in sleep-deprived individuals in response to the rewarding, pleasurable experiences. As with the amygdala, the heightened sensitiv

Our brains are not computer hard drives. Human memory is not a simple matter of “accurate data in, accurate data out.” It is a far more complicated, subtle, and beautiful process.