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Autogenic Therapy

Posted on March 28, 2020 by Joel

Autogenic Therapy While in Japan I underwent the series of Autogenic Therapy training sessions under the supervision of a psychiatrist at Kitazato University Hospital.  Autogenic Therapy is in part, like the weight underside part of Ki Breathing Meditation with mind … Continue reading →

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Maternal Care: Love & Grief

Posted on September 14, 2019 by Joel

Maternal Care: Love &Grief (go together like a horse and carriage) Care: When an infant is separated from the mother, it cries in grief or distress. But the feeling of grief, as painful as it is, is essential for its … Continue reading →

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CARE in Short Supply

Posted on August 8, 2019 by Joel

CARE is one of the seven primary emotions neurologically pinpointed in the subcortical brain. These seven primary emotions are raw affects that arise from the dynamics of large-scale neural networks that generate instinctual emotional behaviors.

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Anti-Bullying

Posted on July 28, 2019 by Joel

Anti-bullying Play Anti-bullying is a lesson that can be learned from play. Jaak Panksepp found play dominance emerges when two rats are allowed to play together repeatedly. One rat tends to become “the winner,” meaning it ends up on top … Continue reading →

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Functions of Play

Posted on July 14, 2019 by Joel

You might not think of Play in terms of affective neuroscience, but according to Jaak Panksepp’s years of lab research, playfulness is the source of one of the most positive social-affective feelings our brains can generate.

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Comorbidity R Us

Posted on July 10, 2019 by Joel

Comorbidity Comorbidity invokes scary images for me. Maybe it is because I taught high school English and broke complex words by their root, prefix, and suffix. Morbid (Oxford English Dictionary)  is from classical Latin morbidus; diseased, sick, causing disease, unhealthy < morbus … Continue reading →

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Caring

Posted on July 6, 2019 by Joel

SEEKING (expectancy) RAGE (anger) FEAR (anxiety) LUST (sexual excitement) CARE (nurturance) PANIC/GRIEF (sadness) PLAY (social joy) CARing We can counter virtually all mass violence with CARing. That sounds so easy. But it means warm and loving care from birth on. That does not seem so hard. But … Continue reading →

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Rage

Posted on June 30, 2019 by Joel

Rage Rage is a bodily response. Emotional states arise at the neural level. Without this bodily response, there is no rage. We don’t think and become enraged. We experience rage in an ancient subcortical brain we have in common with … Continue reading →

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Grief and Endogenous Opioids

Posted on June 25, 2019 by Joel

My Secret Grief I have an embarrassing confession. I am envious of my four-month-old grandson. Dash is generously loved not only by his mother and father but by his extended family and in fact, by everyone he comes in contact … Continue reading →

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RAGE

Posted on June 16, 2019 by Joel

Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)for Rage? On the first page of “Anger: How to Live With and Without It.” Albert Ellis writes, “Most psychologists agree that you absolutely must feel anger. They see the newborn infant as expressing emotions comparable to … Continue reading →

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