How each of us can become a therapeutic presence in the world. Images and sounds of war,
natural disasters, and human-made devastation explicitly surround us and implicitly leave …

After been exposed to the visual input, in the first year of life, the brain experiences subtle
but massive changes apparently crucial for communicative/emotional and social human …

Traditional methods employed in psychotherapy have limited effectiveness when it comes to
healing the psychological effects of trauma, in particular, complex trauma. While a client may …

Pseudoscientific methods of treatment proliferate in the mental health professions. These
treatment approaches often attract busy clinicians who might not have sufficient formal …

Objectives: We explored the effects of a single 40-min session of Eye Movement
Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Brainspotting (BSP), and Body Scan Meditation …

Underlying any complex relational intersubjectivity there is an inherent urge to connect, to
have proximity, to engage in an experience of interpersonal contact. The hypothesis set out …

Peritraumatic dissociation has been considered an important feature for the development of
post-traumatic stress disorders, but this concept remains widely unclear. To explore the …

Shame is an evolved emotional response which requires relational evaluation at a prefrontal
cortical level but which has the visceral sensation and defence response impulse of a basic …

The joint analysis of multimodal neuroimaging data is critical in the field of brain research
because it reveals complex interactive relationships between neurobiological structures and …

Brainspotting (BSP) is a relatively new type of brain-body psychotherapeutic approach
discovered and developed by David Grand (2003) that accesses the client's innate self …