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For those of you who may want to learn a bit more about Developmental Trauma, check out this podcast Lorna Bremner did with me recently. Here are her email comments and the link to Closure Optional. “Thank you again for … Continue reading →

By now the reader will be aware that just as Climate Change is the biggest threat to the earth’s ecology, so is Developmental Trauma to our socio-psychological domain. If we could only get those first 3 years of life right, … Continue reading →

I’ve been working on this thing for several years…a book about how if we can only put more loving energy into the first 3 years of life, we might just save the Planet………problem was……it was too overarching…….there are so many … Continue reading →

This must be the most neglected blog on Planet Earth……is it the subject? the writer? the writing? In the last two years, I have tried to publish a paper called “Healing Trans Generational Cascades of Distress in Disadvantaged Indigenous Communities”…..I … Continue reading →

Dear reader   This must be Planet Earth’s most neglected blog……..even I have been neglectful…..is it the subject?……how I write to it?…… I have published many many papers in various scientific journals, but one of my papers, called “Healing Trans-generational … Continue reading →

It is obvious that a project to nurture the nurturers needs the men on this Planet to take a major part. How can we nurture men to develop more nurturance ? If a man scores high on the ACE scale, … Continue reading →

Nurturance deniers at the political level. A little exercise to bring cheer into your life. Maybe even a tiny bit of power. Below is a list of 10 major world figures…..politicians or leaders of major organisations. The Dalai Lama Angela … Continue reading →

Yesterday was Australia Day in this country……..some of us may have difficulties with the date….I for one would prefer a date that our Indigenous people feel good about, rather than the date  that commemorates  the invasion of this country by … Continue reading →

I recently presented material at a College of Psychiatrists’ Psychotherapy Conference, on the use of neurofeedback to enhance psychotherapy with deeply damaged (Developmental Trauma) patients. I’ve been using NF with some of my deeply damaged patients, guided by my supervisor … Continue reading →

The BIG problem with the “nurturing the nurturers” program is that it will inevitably offend all the mothers on this Planet. They will feel criticized, marginalized, condescended to, etc etc. This is such a sensitive issue. And yet, Winnicott reminds … Continue reading →