This profile on UC Berkeley Professor Dacher Keltner highlights his breakthrough research on the science of kindness and compassion.
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This video features a short guided meditation from the Founder of Compassion Focused Therapy - Professor Paul Gilbert.
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Having compassion for the shadow parts of ourselves is key for our personal healing.
Author and therapist Paul Gilbert explores how awareness of how our own minds work can help break negative thought patterns and help us to become more compassionate.
Religious skepticism birthed the modern world, but its ideologies have largely failed to deliver. Could neuroscience cure the ails of human society? In this fascinatingly brief tour of world history, Joscha Bach suggests that us moderns still toil in the mud of feudalist peasants.
Dr. Stephen Porges, creator of the Polyvagal Theory, discusses how we need to learn skills to trigger" feelings of safety in the body. This is an excerpt from an interview with Dr. Stephen Porges.
The polyvagal theory is the brain child of Stephen Porges, PhD. What Dr.
In conversation with Dr. Gunther Schmidt, Prof. Stephen Porges, founder of the polyvagal theory, explains his scientific approach. Together they discuss the evolutionary development of the polyvagal system, name implications for psychotherapy and provide information on understanding psychotrauma.
Dr. Stephen Porges explains Polyvagal Theory in his interview with PsychAlive.org.
A short lecture from the Psychosomatics Student Group Riga by Kamiar-K. Rückert. Talking about the History of the Mind and Body in medicine as well as the Physiology (Stress-Fear Axis, Epigenetics and Psychoimmunology).
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The term ‘psychosomatic’ means mind and body related. A psychosomatic disorder is a physical disease which is caused, or worsened, by mental factors. The term is also used when mental factors cause physical symptoms but where there is no physical disease.