One of the Lubavitcher Rebbe`s letters on vaccinations is being interpreted by some as an open endorsement of current Vaccination Laws. (The Rebbe encourages one not to deviate from accepted medical norms). This endorsement, however, is predicated by the assumption that Manufacturers adhere to proper standards of safety and quality-control. In 1986 the Department of Read more…
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Letting your Child “Cry it out”: A big No-No according to Scientific Studies
Tuesday, March 27th, 2018Darcia Narvaez, an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame, recently wrote in Psychology Today how excessive crying out could be dangerous for children, leading to a lifetime of harm. In trauma research, foraging patterns are used to study stress responses by replicating different attachment models. A research team led by Read more…
Creating a Therapeutic Narrative
Thursday, January 12th, 2017Jane`s nights are so fretful because as a single young woman she you remains “un-soothed”
Responding to victims of long-term deprivation and early object-loss by showing companionship and verbal validation can succeed in providing a temporary “holding-environment” to compensate for their poorly developed self-soothing skills by conjuring-up any early nurturing experiences that they did have.
What I have found, (and this is supported by the literature) is that having at least one “Good Caretaker” experience during the early “formative” years is crucial in allowing them to be responsive to a variety of brief empathic responses. This evokes early recollections of having been soothed, allowing them to ride-out these wilderness crises.
Consequences of Early Childhood Distress
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012“Ignoring their infants’ distress could lead to subsequent emotional dysregulation," writes Darcia Narvaez, Associate Professor of Psychology at Notre Dame University in a recently published post in Psychology Today. Since infants have been hardwired for near-constant physical attachment, excessive separation distress in infants, resulting from parents ignoring their cries, could lead to permanent changes Read more…
Why Nurturing Protects
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012“The 1950’s saw an awakening in the field of developmental psychology, with a curiosity to account for the process in which an infant differentiates into a healthy, autonomous, self-regulating social entity (Greenacre, P. "Early Determinants in the Development of the Sense of Identity." Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 1958). For an individual to Read more…