More of Dr. Jim / James Husen reading from Dr. Childress's book on An Attachment-Based Model of "Parental Alienation" This time I'll be reading Dr. Childress's chapter on Attachment and Personality. Dr. Childress describes the internal working model and defensive structure of persons with disorganized attachment. Dr. Jim reads Dr. Childress on Attachment and Personality, Part 1 Dr. Jim reads Dr. Childress on Attachment and Personality, Part 2 Dr. Jim reads Dr. Childress on Attachment and Personality, Part 3 Dr. Jim reads Dr. Childress on Attachment and Personality, Part 4
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Dr. Jim Reading From Dr. Childress's Book on An Attachment Based Model of Parental Alienation I've been reading a really interesting book by Dr. Childress and thought I'd read a section in the book where he talks about splitting. Splitting as many will know is a psychoanalytic term describing a person's inability to integrate good and bad. The result is appraisals of others that are overly idealized or overly demonizing. Dr. Jim reads from Dr. Childress's Foundations An Attachment Based Model of Parental Alienation
Why Does Mindfulness Reduce Calm Stress, Improve Your Mood, and Promote Better Health?
Mindfulness reduces stress and improves health. This is a robust scientific finding supported by many recent scientific experimental research. If you want to benefit from this, you can start being mindful right now. 1. Pay attention on purpose to your thoughts and feelings. You don't have to close your eyes but that may help. You can also add some soothing music. 2. In addition to paying attention to your thoughts and feelings you can also purposely slow and deepen your breathing. 3. In paying attention on purpose (called monitoring) you will also purposely ACCEPT Your thoughts and feelings even if you don't agree or like them. R ecently published scientific research highlighted this acceptance component of mindfulness. Using a dismantling technique in a randomized and controlled test of three different groups, Chin et al. (2019) identified acceptance as a "key ingredient" responsible for mindfulness mediated