Contemporary strategies for health and wellbeing fail our biological needs by not
acknowledging that feelings of safety emerge from internal physiological states regulated by …

The risk of improbable, uncertain, but grave potential dangers poses unique adaptive
challenges. We argue that to manage such risks, a special motivational system evolved …

Resilience–a key topic in clinical science and practice–still lacks a clear conceptualization
that integrates its evolutionary and human‐specific features, refrains from exclusive focus on …

Therapeutic presence involves therapists using their whole self to be both fully engaged and
receptively attuned in the moment, with and for the client, to promote effective therapy. In this …

Classic theories of stress and health are largely based on assumptions regarding how
different psychosocial stressors influence biological processes that, in turn, affect human …

The brain and body need to adapt constantly to changing social and physical environments.
A key mechanism for this adaptation is the 'stress response', which is necessary and not …

“Safety first,” we say these words almost every day, but we all take this for granted for what
Maslow proposed in his famous theory of Hierarchy of Needs: safety needs come second to …

Acutely challenging or threatening situations frequently require approach-avoidance
decisions. Acute threat triggers fast autonomic changes that prepare the body to freeze, fight …

The demands of both mental and physical activity are integrated with the dynamic control of
internal bodily states. The set of neural interactions that supports autonomic regulation …