What Makes Psychotherapy Possible
Stephen Porges is a leading expert in developmental psychophysiology and developmental behavioral neuroscience. Yep, it’s a mouthful, but his work has direct relevance to what we do in the consulting...
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The Neurobiology of Worry
Our culture rewards high achievers and Type A personalities, but a brain that’s always ramped up has its disadvantages—it can get stuck on revisiting the same information over and over. In people with...
View ArticleWhat If We Could Prevent Mental Illness?
Phenylketonuria is a disease that results in mental retardation. It’s an inability of the infant’s body to get rid of an amino acid called phenylalanine. If you’re born with a certain gene, you can’t...
View ArticleHow to Become a Lifelong Learner
It’s a little unnerving when we hear that our ability to absorb information steadily declines as we grow older. But what if our capacity to learn wasn’t limited by age? What if it all boiled down to...
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Neurofeedback and Trauma Treatment
Question: I’ve heard that research is beginning to show that neurofeedback can be effective in treating trauma. How does it work? Answer: Neurofeedback was first developed almost 60 years ago to help...
View ArticleTalk Therapy is More Than Talk
Norman Doidge is a psychiatrist and author of The Brain That Changes Itself, a New York Times bestseller that describes the brain’s astonishing capacity for change. In the Networker Webcast series Why...
View ArticleWhat if Everything You Know about Love is Wrong?
Most of us have been trained to think that one of life’s primary goals is to find that one-and-only soul mate. But Barbara Fredrickson—a leading scholar and researcher in the fields of social...
View ArticleThe Power of Mental Rehearsal
In his recent Networker article “The Great Deception,” psychologist Brent Atkinson, author of Emotional Intelligence in Couples Therapy: Advances from Neurobiology and the Science of Intimate...
View ArticleA New Way to Engage Teen Clients
Dan Siegel, author of Brainstorm: The Power and the Purpose of the Teenage Brain, knows that nobody—especially an angst-filled teenager—likes being told what to do. As creative and adventurous as they...
View ArticleWired for heterosexuality or homosexuality?
It’s a topic that has been at the center of countless debates, both rational and irrational. Is there a clear biological difference between the heterosexual and homosexual brain? According to Louann...
View ArticleMirror Mirror
Empathy is the connective tissue of good therapy. It’s what enables us to establish bonds of trust with clients, and to meet them with our hearts as well as our minds. Empathy enhances our insights,...
View ArticleWhat is This Thing Called Love?
Late on a chilly spring night several years ago, my husband inquired when I would be coming to bed. “Mmm, a little later,” I replied. Translation: “Do you want to make love?” Answer: “Not a chance.”...
View ArticleSleepless in America
It’s 3:00 a.m. Your eyes suddenly snap wide open and stare unblinking into the darkness. You try to remember the dream you were having, but it’s gone, and anyway you’re now as tightly tuned as a...
View ArticleEmpathy Becomes a Physical Force
Empathy is the connective tissue of good therapy. It’s what enables us to establish bonds of trust with clients, and to meet them with our hearts as well as our minds. Empathy enhances our insights,...
View ArticleRevisiting Our Relationship with Insomnia
It’s 3:00 a.m. Your eyes suddenly snap wide open and stare unblinking into the darkness. You try to remember the dream you were having, but it’s gone, and anyway you’re now as tightly tuned as a...
View ArticleSensory Integration Therapy for Defiant Children
I’m sitting on a metal folding chair in the corner of a large, open room watching my son misbehave. I’m trying not to interfere. He is being tested by Rebecca, an occupational therapist, but he is not...
View ArticleAltered States
In the 15 years that I’ve been following developments in neuroscience, the most compelling clinical lesson I’ve learned is likely to rub you the wrong way. An overwhelming body of research now suggests...
View ArticleA Brain Science Approach to Couples Therapy
In the 15 years that I’ve been following developments in neuroscience, the most compelling clinical lesson I’ve learned is likely to rub you the wrong way. An overwhelming body of research now suggests...
View ArticleThe Merits of Applying Brain Science in Therapy
Anatomically, modern humans evolved from our chimplike ancestors around 100,000 years ago, although it took another 50,000 years for our brains and culture to evolve sufficiently to make us capable of...
View ArticlePutting SPECT Brain-Imaging Under the Microscope
Psychiatrist Daniel Amen is a trim, elfin figure with a puckish smile and the staccato delivery of a stand-up comic. The winner of a Distinguished Fellow Award from the American Psychiatric...
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