Nov 3, 2012
Visitors to my site will know I have highlighted the research on how improved mindfulness skills, in particular the development of a non-judging relationship with internal experiences, can lead to improvements...
Oct 29, 2012
Previously, on my site, and in these posts, I have spoken about the products of childhood emotional abuse (recall the important studies of van Harmelen such as [LINK] and [LINK]. In today's post, I wish to...
Oct 22, 2012
I have just received a copy of Kate Iverson's paper An investigation of experiential avoidance, emotion dysregulation, and distress tolerance in young adult outpatients with borderline personality disorder...
Oct 22, 2012
Interesting item recently in magazine "New Statesman" from
Dr Ben Goldacre vs the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
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Oct 21, 2012
In my last post I briefly discussed the importance of Emotion Regulation training in the treatment of a number of disorders; among them, Complex Trauma, Borderline Personality Disorder, and in some cases at...
Oct 20, 2012
Borderline Personality, Complex Trauma, and Postrraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) have numerous features in common. In fact, if the PTSD is a product of childhood trauma, or if the individual with Borderline...
Oct 17, 2012
I get inspiring quotes sent on a daily basis and I couldn't help sharing today's -- and adding my own "spin" to it -- prompted by a reminder sent to me by a favourite, though still aspiring, academic author...
Oct 14, 2012
In an Australian study [LINK], Kylie Bailey, also from the University of Newcastle, where Dore and Mills have done such good work (see previous posts) examining the inter-relationships between childhood...
Oct 14, 2012
Following on from my last post, about understanding the "epigenetic" basis of suicide attempts, a recent paper by Spokas and colleagues at La Salle University [LINK], continues to build evidence which those...
Oct 8, 2012
In a new book, Benoit Labonte and Gustavo Turecki (2012) [LINK] examine the epigenetic effects of childhood adversity in the brain and the associated suicide risk as a result. Their chapter is published in...