by Evan Dwan | Dec 21, 2021 | News |
Children with insecure histories may do well for a time but are more vulnerable to subsequent problems (Sroufe in Cassidy and Shaver, 2016). Resilience is a developmental process not a trait. Alan Sroude notes that had the his Minnesota study of risk and adaptation...
by Evan Dwan | Dec 20, 2021 | News |
The contribution of attachment to our understanding of development is without parallel (Sroufe in Cassidy and Shaver, 2016). It played a central role in moving from a one-person psychology to a relational psychology where the relationship becomes the unit studied....
by Evan Dwan | Dec 19, 2021 | News |
There appears to be a broader context to the ACE’s (Adverse childhood experience) that wreak so much havoc on health and development: The intergenerational transmission of trauma and maladaptive attachment patterns. Intergenerational trauma is also referred to as...
by Evan Dwan | Dec 19, 2021 | News |
Health can be understood as a state of optimal regulation and adaptive functioning of body, mind and relationships (Siegel, 2012). Health emerges from integration which is the linkage of differentiated parts of a system. Without integration, chaos and rigidity emerge....
by Evan Dwan | Sep 8, 2021 | News |
Bertrand Russel, the philosopher, argued that most discussions of politics take insufficient account of psychology. What, then, are the psychological roots of the climate crisis? Psychoanalyst Sally Weintrobe argues that capital E ‘Exceptionalism’ lies at the root of...
by Evan Dwan | Sep 8, 2021 | News |
Why is it that often well-intentioned policies produce the opposite to what they set out to do? Asks David peter Stroh. Failed social policies often have similar features: They address symptoms not the underlying cause They appear obvious and often succeed in the...
