Description
Regulation theory provides a clinical model for relational psychotherapy: a theory of bodymind, of optimal development, of pathological development, and of treatment. Students will learn how to think about affect and its regulation, about self-states as regulated-integrated vs dysregulated-dissociated, about the neurobiology of secure and insecure attachment, about relational trauma and its sequelae as character disorders and chronic suffering from dissociated shame, and about interactive regulation and vitalizing attunement as essential processes in the treatment of personality disorders and other disorders of affect regulation.
