UNC Greensboro Psychology doctoral student Shae Nester is the winner of the 2025 Dr. Christine Blasey Ford Grant. The award will provide $3,750 to fund their dissertation project entitled, “A laboratory and ambulatory investigation of trauma-related dissociation, interoceptive accuracy, and interoceptive attention.” The project is conducted under the direction of... Continue reading...| Department of Psychology
There are many different beliefs about why children hit, and based on those beliefs, what the most helpful response to a hitting child is. Old religious paradigms believed that children were innately evil or bad and needed to be shamed and punished into being ‘good’. Behaviourism believed that children needed to be taught through punishments, […]| Marion Rose, Ph.D. Aware Parenting and The Marion Method
Giving Error a Form: The role of the Unconscious Imagination Introduction: The Myth of Creation According to Blake, the materialization of Error, or the “Creation” as its popularly called, is the result of a dissociative split within consciousness itself, emanating from the radical alienation of the rationalizing and “objecting” (or objectifying) portion of consciousness from […]| thehumandivinedotorg
Verbal abuse, what’s the payoff?Distance, disconnection, abandonment.I don’t matter, I don’t belong; sense of community lost.No trust or accountability. No safety, no safe-harbor.Up in my tree as soon as I could get away.Comfort, nurture, understanding, support from my tree. Physical abuse, what’s the payoff?Transferring fear and terror held in my dadinto my little body, and […]| Adult Children of Alcoholics & Dysfunctional Families
Photo taken by contributor Debora Vernagallo, a 30 year old from Italy who spent her teens living with dissociative episodes. At the age of 30, she has published her first book, “Si vive solo due volte” (in English, “Life Is Only Twice”), and she discovered photography as a powerful tool for self-therapy. Above all, photography […]| Broken Light Collective