The Divided Brain
Iain McGilchrist - The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (32:11)
Renowned psychiatrist and writer Iain McGilchrist explains how the 'divided brain' has profoundly altered human behaviour, culture and society.
An Introduction to Interpersonal Neurobiology by Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. (1:33)
Interpersonal neurobiology, a term coined by Dr. Siegel in The Developing Mind, 1999, is an interdisciplinary field which seeks to understand the mind and mental health. This field is based on science but is not constrained by science. What this means is that we attempt to construct a picture of the "whole elephant" of human reality.
Interpersonal Neurobiology
Interpersonal Neurobiology
Dr. Dan Siegel - An Interpersonal Neurobiology Approach to Resilience and the Development of Empathy (1:29:42)
Dr. Siegel is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and the founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA. He is the acclaimed author of "The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are" which introduced us to interpersonal neurobiology. He has written extensively for professional publications which have been translated into more than 30 languages. He has also written four parenting books. His latest book (2016) is "Mind, A Journey to the Heart of Being Human", “offers a deep exploration of our mental lives as they emerge from the body and our relations to each other and the world around us.” - He was speaking at the Roots of Empathy 2017 Research Symposium in Toronto.
Deb Dana describes the Polyvagal Theory (2:57)
Deb Dana, LCSW is a clinician, consultant, lecturer, Coordinator of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium in the Kinsey Institute, and developer of the Rhythm of Regulation Clinical Training Series. She also lectures internationally on ways in which Polyvagal Theory informs work with trauma survivors.
Polyvagal Theory
Polyvagal Theory
Polyvagal Theory and Trauma – Deb Dana (1:54:53)
The autonomic nervous system is at the heart of daily living powerfully shaping experiences of safety and influencing the capacity for connection. Polyvagal Theory, through the organizing principles of hierarchy, neuroception, and co-regulation, has revolutionized our understanding of how this system works. We now know that trauma interrupts the development of autonomic regulation and shapes the system away from connection into patterns of protection. For many clients, states of fight, flight, and collapse are frequent, intense, and prolonged while the state of safety and connection is elusive. Their autonomic nervous systems now respond in characteristic post-traumatic patterns of hyperarousal, hypervigilance, disconnection, and numbing.