Dr. James Husen, Licensed Psychologist, Licensed Attorney, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

 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

 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

 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

Categorical Distinctions and Their Impact on Emotional Reactivity in Relationships One of the first distinctions that a newborn makes is between pleasure and pain. We tend to approach conditions that bring us pleasure and avoid those that bring us pain. Philosophers and scientists Have identified this process as fundamental to adaptation. In fact children who have problems with distinguishing pleasure from pain have significantly reduced life expectancies. The second distinction in newborn begins to understand and appreciate is the distinction between self another. Persons with fragile personalities subject to decompensation when relationally distressed tend toward all of nothing thinking and feeling and lose contact, Dr. Linehan (1993) said, with the wisdom or their lives losing all ameliorating perspective. This is where the power of radical acceptance comes in. Linehan talks about radically accepting one's self as s/he is as well as one's circumstances. This truly