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Healing Transgenerational Cascades of Distress in Disadvantaged Indigenous Communities; Challenges, Opportunities, and a Case Study.
Here is the abstract for a paper that will be published over the next few months. A copy of the full text is available if you e-mail me at <leon.petchkovsky@gmail.com> Healing Transgenerational Cascades of Distress in Disadvantaged Indigenous Communities; Challenges, … Continue reading
Some change at last,
In conversation with Bev Allen and Mel Watson at the August 2014 Child Trauma Conference in Melbourne, we learned about Babes to Bumps and Beyond and listened to their presentation (Allen and Watson 2014). This program has been going for 2 … Continue reading
a fractal view of nurturance
Empathy and mindfulness facilitate impulse control and make for both kindness and good limit setting. A range of interventions (meditation, psychotherapy) can boost these, but they involve much hard work, essentially because of our ingrained resistances, which have much to … Continue reading
Dr John Boulton is a pediatrician who has been working in Aboriginal communities for many many years. An article by Nicholas Rothwell in the Weekend Australian (June 1-2, 2013) reviews some of this work. In essence , (and I quote … Continue reading
what relevance does the fMRI study have for nurturance?Well, the things that light up are the so-called “resonance circuitry” or the “shared circuitry”. This is the mirror neuron/self-awareness/self-monitoring circuitry, that mediates mindfulness and empathy……..the very stuff that develops properly if … Continue reading
nurturance deniers
Climate change deniers are unwilling to concede that human activities are affecting the planet, despite all the research. Even if the research were overly pessimistic, this is still such a big issue that we can’t really afford to take a … Continue reading
fMRI responses to Jung’s Word Association Test. Implications for Theory, Treatment, and Research. Leon Petchkovsky, Michael Petchkovsky, Philip Morris, Paul Dickson, Danielle Montgomery, Jonathan Dwyer, Patrick Burnett.
We are presenting a version of this at the RANZCP Psychotherapy Conference in Sydney (Coogee Crown Plaza) 24th of Aug. The research looks at “internal conflict”…how the “Internal I” interacts with the “Internal Other”…what emerges is that the mindfulness and … Continue reading
Michael and Leon
My eldest son and I in Alice Springs 2011, preparing for a Bush trip. Michael is an artist with serious computer skills who helps me with brain imaging research. See next post
Violence in Central Australia
Back in the early 70’s, I got a job in Alice Springs Hospital, as an Obstetrics and Surgical Registrar, delivering babies and removing appendices. It must have been infectious, because I’ve found myself returning to the Red Centre ever … Continue reading
Monkey see monkey do; the mirror neurones
In the 1990s, a Macaque monkey lived in a laboratory at Parma University, in Italy. Let us call him Mario. Even though Mario was a monkey, his job was to serve as a Guinea pig for a bunch of neurophysiology researchers … Continue reading
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