Childhood Trauma, Oxytocin And Our Ability To Love :
We know that there is a link between childhood trauma and the subsequent experience of depression in later life.
Furthermore, it is now also known, thanks to neuroscientific research, that those … Read the rest
BPD And Identity Disturbance :
One of the defining symptoms of borderline personality disorder (a condition strongly associated with childhood trauma) is identity disturbance. In other words, many individuals with BPD have an unstable self-image and no firm sense … Read the rest
Are You Easily Provoked Into Angry And Aggressive Behaviour?
After my mother threw me out of her house when I was thirteen years old and I was reluctantly taken in by my father and step-mother (which I have written … Read the rest
After my mother threw me out of her house when I was thirteen, my father and his new wife reluctantly permitted me to live with them; they did not particularly endeavour to conceal this reluctance even from the very … Read the rest
Based upon Zimbardo’s and Boyd’s (2008) Time Perspective Theory, a therapeutic technique known as Time Perspective Therapy (Zimbardo, Sword and Sword) was developed.
Time Perspective Therapy is predicated upon Zimbardo’s idea that the way in which we … Read the rest
When I was a young child, my mother always remarked upon how easily I picked up on the slightest emotional signals she, and others, displayed (such as a tiny change in expression, a very slight change in tone of … Read the rest
