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What’s Brain-Informed Neurodiverse Couples Therapy?
Neurodiversity, as a human difference has received little academic attention in mental health training programs, until recently.
What is Brain-Informed Neurodiverse Couples Therapy?
Depression: Lifestyle vs. Genetics the results from a huge longitudinal study…
Researchers have discovered 7 lifestyle habits which can slash your vulnerability to depression by a whopping 57%!
What are they?
Making light of depression…
Breaking research explains how light can promote mental health… and undermine it as well…
The problems with Evolutionary Psychology…
Evolutionary psychology is an emerging discipline with a somewhat jaundiced view of mankind…
Here are some of my kind-hearted quibbles with EP…
Unveiling Betrayal Trauma Theory: navigating the depths of emotional betrayal
A new understanding of trauma invites us to consider the source.
How will Betrayal Trauma Theory help us better understand the special burden of an intimate betrayal?
The promise of Evolutionary Psychology…
The emerging field of evolutionary psychology tries to answer the big questions about human sexual behavior, mate selection and pair-bonding…
Why do some wealthy humans become more increasingly miserable as they prosper?
I love research about emotions and money!
A duel of the titans between conflicting researchers has yielded a fascinating tidbit…
About 20% of humans become correspondingly more miserable as they prosper…
The most essential skill linked to peace of mind…
New research from Finland and the USA is trying to take the elusive notion of peace of mind, and reverse engineer it to its most fundamental elements.
The upside of being a slob…
I love it when a piece of research explains away a fact of life, leaving in it’s wake, a calm self-acceptance.
For some smartypants humans, this research will elicit a sigh of relief…
Divorce upon the death of a child… the research
The death of a child is perhaps, the greatest stress upon a human soul.
What does the research tell us about this profound kind of grief?
And how does that contradict our cultural expectations?
The science-based symphony of love…
Gottman Couples Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Couples Therapy are the dominant models used today.
In this post, I’ll compare and contrast the two models with a tortuously extended symphonic metaphor…
The power of abstract thinking…
I can’t help myself! It’s endlessly fascinating to me when research helps us tweak and goose our minds to work a little better for us.
I love brain hack studies!
This one is particularly cool…