by Evan Dwan | Mar 20, 2022 | News |
Herds, packs, flocks and schools evolved because life was safer in larger numbers (Bloom, 2013). Security is the primary reason for social life. Many behaviours like walking or dancing are pleasurable because they synchronise our rhythms with others. One theory for...
by Evan Dwan | Mar 19, 2022 | News |
In ‘Bowling alone’ Robert Putman highlighted the decline in social capital – the benefits of participating in social networks (Gilligan et al, 2018). Putnam demonstrated that civic organisation and social institutions (family, school, religious organisations) that...
by Evan Dwan | Mar 18, 2022 | News |
Sandra bloom writes that the realisation that humans tend to repeat traumatic experience has led to the fear that our society is suffering post-traumatic deterioration that could lead to self-destruction as it can do with individuals who remained locked into traumatic...
by Evan Dwan | Mar 18, 2022 | News |
The capacity for intersubjectivity begins to be laid down in the prenatal period during the mutually regulating relationship between the physiology of the mother and the infant across the placenta (Schore, 2021). During the last trimester of pregnancy these...
by Evan Dwan | Mar 17, 2022 | News |
According to Gabor Mate, trauma can be understood as a wound that hardens a person psychologically and interferes with the ability to grow and develop. It creates pain and out of the pain a person acts out. Trauma is not what happens to you but it is about what...
