by Evan Dwan | May 26, 2021 | News |
Vincent Felliti, who led the study on adverse childhood experiences (ACE’s), writes that it is only in recent decades that the size of the problem of developmentally damaged people has begun to be recognised. It has become evident that traumatic experiences...
by Evan Dwan | May 26, 2021 | News |
Darcia Narvaez, in her book, Neurobiology and the development of human morality, writes that early life care supports the development of the right hemisphere of the brain which is responsible for self-regulatory and prosocial systems and functioning. When early care...
by Evan Dwan | May 26, 2021 | News |
The pioneering affective neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp writes that although we are a resilient species our genetic heritage does not guarantee the development of affectively-balanced minds – this emerges from the ‘primal, inherited emotional forces’ interacting with...
by Evan Dwan | May 25, 2021 | News |
Darcia Narvaez writes that, similar to other life forms, humans have evolved with particular needs. We are born incomplete, barely formed, and are deeply impacted by the postnatal environment, in particular, how physical and psychological needs are met. The sequence...
by Evan Dwan | May 25, 2021 | News |
James Prescott notes that scientific evidence has been building since Bowlby’s time of how the attachment of the infant to its mother lies at the core of our humanity. Sarah Hrdy writes that it was the mother that continuously carried the infant in skin-to-skin...
