I'm on mission to demystify therapy and why it works. That starts with exposing outdated nonsense that currently charades as the science of psychotherapy, and holding accountable those who keep promoting it.
Then I'll try to make the new stuff intelligible---which is proving to be a challenge, but I'm up for it. You deserve it.
To those who find my explanations wanting, feel free to take your own dive into the deep end of 21st century brain/emotion science, and the debunking of old paradigms. The following bibliography will set you on your course.
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"How Emotions are Made, The Secret Life of the Brain" by Lisa Feldman Barrett
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"The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality" by Andy Clark
https://amzn.to/4frUcud
"Seven and a Half Lessons about the Brain" by Lisa Feldman Barrett
https://amzn.to/46ymL56
"What Is Health?: Allostasis and the Evolution of Human Design" by Peter Sterling
https://amzn.to/4dh59xi
"After 30 years of "polyvagal" hypotheses, is there any direct evidence for the first 3 premises that form the foundation of the polyvagal conjectures?"
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Aft...
"The evolution of sociality and the polyvagal theory"
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
"Fundamental challenges and likely refutations of the five basic premises of the polyvagal theory"
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
"Toward understanding respiratory sinus arrhythmia: Relations to cardiac vagal tone, evolution and biobehavioral functions," 2005
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
"Signal processing in the vagus nerve: Hypotheses based on new genetic and anatomical evidence"
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37419...
"An overview of the phylogeny of cardiorespiratory control in vertebrates with some reflections on the ‘Polyvagal Theory’"
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
"Allostasis: A model of predictive regulation"
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
"The theory of constructed emotion: an active inference account of interoception and categorization"
https://academic.oup.com/scan/article...
"The free energy principle made simpler but not too simple"
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
"Functional anatomy of the vagus system: How does the polyvagal theory comply?"
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36100...
"Active inference and the two-step task"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
"”Polyvagal theory” is pseudoscience. Here’s why.
The deeper you dig, the worse it gets."
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