by Evan Dwan | May 14, 2022 | News |
The right brain is critical to survival functions like allocation of attention, positive and negative affect, regulating stress and the ability to read other’s emotions intuitively in an empathic way (Schore, 2019a). Across the lifespan the right-lateralised...
by Evan Dwan | May 8, 2022 | News |
Modern societies tend to minimise feelings and focus on language and cognition (Porges, in Mitchell, Tuuci and Tronick). However, theory and research has changed focus from left brain conscious cognition to right brain unconscious affect and its nonverbal relational...
by Evan Dwan | Jan 6, 2022 | News |
Schore (2012) writes that radical expansion of knowledge in social and affective neuroscience and the paradigm shift (from a focus on cognition to emotion) has implication for the political and cultural organisation of society. McGilChrist (2009) notes how the right...
by Evan Dwan | Jan 5, 2022 | News |
It is often claimed that we are experiencing a crisis of meaning (McGilChrist, 2021). Far more people in the history of the world now live separate from the natural world, alienated from structures and traditions of stable society and dismissive of the divine. These...
by Evan Dwan | Dec 26, 2021 | News |
The loving mother’s right brain to right brain connection up-regulates positive and down-regulates negative emotions to shape the child’s right subcortical-cortical circuits during the brain’s growth spurt in the first two years of life (Schore, 2019). This right...
