Core-Self Pruning
The Developmental Truth of Childhood
Almost all children suffer a sustained and often targeted string of traumatic micro, and macro-aggressions, from the moment they are born.
Core-Self Pruning
Dual-Mask Model of Attachment
Our Theory of DNA-Self, includes the concept that, due to a small child’s ability to forget upsetting or uncomfortable moments, adults may well find that they actually have two masks. One will be hidden, and highly automated.
Attachment Theory
Social Control: Scapegoating
Scapegoating is a troubling concept that plays a significant role in social dynamics and psychology. Scapegoating is the practice of singling out a person or group for unmerited blame and negative treatment.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Puppy-dog Syndrome and the Consequences of Avoidant Parents
This article looks into the basic family relationship, as driven by our genetic need for connection, support, nurturing and protection. We then propose a typical dysfunctional scenario, based on parents that are avoidant of that connection. It proposes that this scenario will result in children that will include a scapegoat, who may well develop C-PTSD based Stockholm Syndrome, before they are old enough to verbalise their long-term abuse. It also introduces a new term – Puppy-dog Syndrome, to describe one of the observable behaviours of children that have had this childhood.
Organisational Narcissism
The Antipsychotic Medication Paradox: A cause of systematic Gaslighting in the NHS?
Recent research has uncovered a potentially systematic gaslighting mechanism within the NHS, the National Health Service in the UK. This appears to show that NHS may be in breach of the Mental Capacity Act, and is, as such, showing itself to be a potentially narcissistic organisation.
Anxiety
SwitchStep Music Therapy
SwitchStep Music Therapy is a creative, accessible, and evidence-informed approach that helps children and adults connect with their authentic selves, build resilience, and develop self-regulation through intentional movement and rhythm.
Active Imagination
The Coping Paradox: A Theory of Masked Coping and Cognitive Overload
In the Coping Paradox, the paradox lies in the fact that coping is both necessary for resilience and, when unmanaged, a source of vulnerability.
Adaptive Coping
Incongruent coping
Incongruent coping; compliance, emotional disengagement, and passive “freezing”, is a trauma-driven survival strategy. Although safer in the short-term, it limits growth and contributes to distress unless recognized and transformed into more adaptive, congruent coping and incongruent coping styles.
Attachment Theory
Nature
In this article, we will provide an introduction to these two concepts and discuss how they relate to each other and to human well-being.
Peak Growth
Binary Therapies – Finding the Rainbow in the Black and the white
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a recently introduced therapy which has shown very good results, but has had a number of criticisms based on our lack of understanding as to exactly how it works.