Sublime

Within each of us is an inherent drive toward health—a push toward integration. But life happens, and we may sometimes find that integration is blocked. This blockage can come from impairments to linkage, as in unresolved trauma. Blockage can also arise from impairments to differentiation, whether as a fallout from childhood neglect or as a result

the self as intrinsically, empathically inseparable from the world in which it stands in relation to others, and the continuous sense of self, are more dependent on the right hemisphere, whereas the objectified self, and the self as an expression of will, is generally more dependent on the left hemisphere.

In my four books, The Developing Mind, Mindsight, Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human, and Aware, I proposed that mind is an emergent property of embodied and relational energy flow; this flow arises—emerges—within our skin-encased body and brain (embodied flow) and within our relationships with people and the planet (relational flow).

So perhaps it is true that no member of the family can understand the therapist’s interpretation in its fourth order fullness. So what? Does it really matter if the formulation is over the heads of its clients? Family systems therapists may think not. Many of the theories that guide family therapy express skepticism of the whole concept of the

Play is not done alone or in isolation but involves others and is a reciprocal, synchronous, and spontaneous act. Play also involves violations of expectancy, interruptions in the exchange of safety and connection that might trigger reflexive reactions of defense. However, these disruptions are quickly repaired through an exchange of cues of safety