by Evan Dwan | Mar 31, 2022 | News |
The human brain growth spurt begins in the last trimester and continues to the third year (Schore, 2012). Day care provided by current American society increases the risk of insecure attachment when it begins in the first year and has an extensive duration....
by Evan Dwan | Mar 29, 2022 | News |
In order to reverse the negative trends in well-being, science needs to develop an understanding of the psychobiological needs of humans as a result of their evolutionary nature (Narvaez et al, 2013). The diminishment of child-rearing capacity in modern times has been...
by Evan Dwan | Mar 25, 2022 | News |
The last fifty years have seen a huge amount of research that supports the view that the emotional quality of our earliest attachment experiences is the single most important influence on human development (Siegel and Sroufe, 2011). The work of John Bowlby lead to a...
by Evan Dwan | Mar 23, 2022 | News |
“During a time of great pain and crisis in my life, my great grannie came to me and gave me a gift. She sent a dream…I asked ‘What do we do now?’ And the answer came ‘We come here, and we sit with each other. We tell our stories. We grieve together. And we dance and...
by Evan Dwan | Mar 22, 2022 | News |
Child psychiatrist, Bruce Perry, describes his experience with Maori healers in New Zealand. Pain, distress and dysfunction, for the Maori, arise out of fragmentation, disconnection and dysynchrony. Colonisation fragments families, community and culture and this...