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Dr. Husen Reads from Minuchin on Structural Family Therapy and the Psychosomatic Family and Others

 Dr. Jim Reads Salvador Minuchin's Families and Family Therapy, A Foundational Resource for Understanding Munichin's Structural Family Therapy Chapter 1--Structural Family Therapy Dr. Husen reads from Flaskas' (2009): "Love and Hate and the  oedipal myth: The perfect bridge between the systemic and the psychoanalytic" in  Flaskas, C. & Pocock, D. (2009). Systems and Psychoanalysis : Contemporary Integrations in Family Therapy. Taylor & Francis Group, 2009.  ProQuest Ebook Central. Below, Dr. Husen reads from Minuchin's Psychosomatic Family, Chapter
 Dr. Jim Reads Chapter 3, Grass, in Allen Wheelis' 1974 Book called How People Change. Grass
 Dr. Jim Reads Hawley on the Role of Competition and Cooperation in Shaping Personality: The Role of Competition and Cooperation in Shaping Personality
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 Dr. Jim reads from Dr. Christine A. Courtois and Dr. Julian D. Ford's Treating Complex Traumatic Stress Disorders: Scientific Foundations and Therapeutic Models, pp. 31 and 32 on the Impact of psychological trauma on early childhood: The survival brain. Dr. Jim reads pp. 31 and 32 of Julian Ford's "Neurobiological and Developmental Research: Clinical Implications. The illustration above is from Panksepp's Book on Affective Neuroscience which I found fascinating and wrote about in my book on Domestic Violence and It's Effects on Children. There I wrote: In the context of a child getting ready to go to school at age 5, the most insidious impact DV has on preschool children relates to how exposure to DV constrains and shapes a child’s perception of self. Such children become hypervigilant to cues of danger; this deprives them of the ability to engage in spontaneous, joyful play. DV in the home robs the preschool child of natural childhood curiosity and learning. DV t
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 What happens to a Spider when it takes in caffeine or marijuana with its prey? Note the following picture of webs in a biology lecture I attended for my Biology II class at UNE: From Brooker on Biology, p. 720
 Dr. Jim Studies the Plant Kingdom with Brooker on Biology Seed Diversity Seed Diversity 2 Gymnosperms and Angiosperms 1 Gymnosperms and Angiosperms 2