Onsite Resource Page for

Our Relationships

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Mid-Life Crisis - the challenges of personal growth or Differentiation within an intimate setting

  

  

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Family of origin - our first and most formative social learning environment

  

  

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Attachment styles - our deeply patterned social response tendencies, especially those that influence Approach and Distancing responses to significant others

 

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Mother-infant relationship  - our first love affair and Safety based Attachment Bond - and the building blocks for later adult level Bonding and Safety

 

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Communication - all levels and forms of information processing that occurs between two individuals including verbal content, behavioral and emotional expressions and bodily felt sensations

 

  

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Body feelings, emotions, and thinking - the three levels of internal information processing

                                                                                     

 

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Disruption and Repair - I hurt the one I love..., - I feel bad..., - I will somehow make it better;  The “heartbeat” of relational development - from mother and infant to adult relationships

 

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Influences of family of origin attachment sensibilities can lead to Perceptual Errors or Mistakes in assessing one’s own experience and that of the other in the current relationship

 

  

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Our Neurobiological based attachment sensibilities underlie recognizable  social response tendencies in current relationships

    

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Integration - normal psychological growth or Re-integration as psychological healing

 

    

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My studies in Neurobiology and Attachment Theory

Over the past seven years I have been actively integrating new studies and research in neurobiology and attachment theory into my work with individuals and couples.  In addition to my independent studies I have also been studying with two prominent researchers (also therapists) in this field.

I have been attending quarterly seminar/updates on developmental affective neuroscience & clinical practice with Allan Schore, Ph.D. over the past six years.  

Dr. Schore is on the clinical faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, and the UCLA Center for Culture, Brain, and Development.  His work includes three highly acclaimed books and numerous publications in national and international journals.

    You can find a review of Allan Schore and his work at wikipedia.org

    You can also find an interview with Allan Schore at thinkbody.co.uk

    You can find books by Allan Schore at amazon.com

Over the past year I have been attending quarterly trainings with Stan Tatkin, Psy.D., MFT on the neurobiology of relationships in couples therapy.  Dr. Tatkin is an assistant clinical professor at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine and on the adjunct faculty for Antioch University, Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, and California Lutheran University.  In addition to his own practice and leading training groups he has, in a series of published articles, extended current understandings of the neurobiology of relationships with contributions from his own research.  He is co-author of Love and War in Intimate Relationships: How the Mind, Brain, and Body Interact.  You can find this book at amazon.com