by Evan Dwan | Sep 20, 2022 | News |
Every emotion involves a specific set of needs. When needs are met, experience flows and emotions are fleeting. If we feel shame but at the same time, we are validated by someone meaningful we gain reassurance and feel comfortable and confident again. If needs are not...
by Evan Dwan | Sep 19, 2022 | News |
Psychological suffering and emotion pain signal unmet needs (Greenberg, 2021). Emotions carry information about whether needs are met or unmet. Les Greenberg refers to the psychological needs that are most commonly not responded to or are violated that leave a legacy...
by Evan Dwan | Sep 18, 2022 | News |
Emotions can be understood as being healthy (adaptive), or unhealthy (maladaptive), according to Les Greenberg. Primary emotions are the first emotions people have in response to external or internal stimuli – gut feelings. Secondary emotions arise as reactions to...
by Evan Dwan | Dec 19, 2021 | News |
Health can be understood as a state of optimal regulation and adaptive functioning of body, mind and relationships (Siegel, 2012). Health emerges from integration which is the linkage of differentiated parts of a system. Without integration, chaos and rigidity emerge....
by Evan Dwan | Aug 26, 2021 | News |
Bruce Ecker writes that the emotional brain makes meaning in ways that are implicit and nonverbal. This ability to make models of the world is innate and present in 3-month-old infants who have expectations of their environment and respond accordingly. Psychotherapy...
