Sublime

When both partners have healthy attachment styles the framework develops in an open and explicit way.

The importance of the orbitofrontal cortex for emotion has been further demonstrated by research on brain damage. The neurologist Antonio Damasio has studied people who, because of a stroke, tumor, or blow to the head, have lost various parts of their frontal cortex. In the 1990s, Damasio found that when certain parts of the orbitofrontal cortex

BESIDES BEING BORN with plenty of oxytocin receptors, how can one attain a high degree of empathy? One answer, I believe, is to be depressed.

Trauma causes people to remain stuck in interpreting the present in light of an unchanging past.

(Remember that the brain is largely turned on and built through social interaction.)

Faulty alarm systems lead to blowups or shutdowns in response to innocuous comments or facial expressions.

the development of integrative structures and processes in the brain (Delmonte, 1995; Siegel, 2012).

To his wife’s exasperation, he frequently moved from city to city (a very common habit among those who experience mania). He accumulated debt by borrowing large sums of money for his investments, and except for happy events like the birth of his son, he was usually glum.

Their pathology is thought to be based on serious difficulties in the first few years of life. They lack internal soothing or comforting parental representations: their internal world is inhabited by abandoning, withholding, and disappointing caregiver representations.