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clinicians realized after evaluating survivors of trauma that the neurobiological expression of their trauma is not always along a continuum of a highly mobilized defensiveness that we categorize as fight or flight reactions but often is expressed along a continuum of immobilization.
Stephen W. Porges • The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
“you, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behaviour of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules”.
Greg Taylor • Stop Worrying! There Probably Is an Afterlife
people ask, “Are you studying fear?” I say,
Stephen W. Porges • The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
California Institute of Technology’s John Hopfield
Howard Bloom • The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
traumatic trigger of an initial dissociation and its link to a phylogenetically old adaptive reaction.
Stephen W. Porges • The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
a regulated and resourced nervous system spontaneously downregulates defensive reactions,
Deborah A. Dana • Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory
And the most famous is Loss Aversion, which shows how people are statistically more likely to act to avert a loss than to achieve an equal gain.
Tahl Raz • Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
This adaptive skill required neural mechanisms that could turn off the well-developed defensive strategies that characterized reptiles and other more “primitive” vertebrates.