Tag Archives: Bibliotherapy

Awakening Into Awareness 22 Healing with Awareness

Awareness of Our Bottom-Basement Mind Affective Neuroscience developed by Jaak Panksepp in the 1990s deals with raw affective feelings and instinctual emotional responses deep inside our brains below the thinking-cap neocortex. Clinical psychologists rarely deal with these affective feelings and … Continue reading

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Awakening Unto Awareness 8 PLAYrooms

Healing Power of Reading Though none of my therapists tapped into the therapeutic power of bibliotherapy, the right book at the right time is transformative.

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Video Games R Us

Video Games You may have heard of the nine-year-old girl in the U.K. whose father discovered her sitting on a urine-soaked cushion playing the video game “Fortnite.” But before you get in an argument or debate as to whether “Fortnite” … Continue reading

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RAGE!

Cognitive Therapy 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 anger and … Continue reading

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Emotional Slave

Seven Primary Affect Systems SEEKING or expectancy RAGE FEAR LUST CARING PANIC/GRIEF PLAY These seven basic emotional systems are the results of years of data-based lab research of functions of deep-brain neural systems. Panksepp summarized this research  in “The Archaeology of … Continue reading

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