Link: Bessel van der Kolk’s Trauma Center
Bessel van der Kolk is the head of this Trauma Center. The web page provides knowledge about trauma in children and other relevant information on trauma.
Interview with Peter Fonagy
A nice interview with Fonagy in which he refers to his own story and talks about today’s challenges in relation to mental health.
Video: Dan Siegel on optimal attachment
Dr. Dan Siegel talks about optimal attachment
Book review: Zero degrees of empathy
By Simon Baron-Cohen
The book takes a closer look at empathy. Especially interesting is the term 0-empathy, including 0-empathy negative and 0-empathy positive. Referring to 0-empathy negative the focus is on borderline, psychopathy and narcissism. With 0-empathy positive the focus is on Asperger syndrome. Heredity and environment are discussed in relation to all the conditions.
It is a good and rewarding book spiced with cases.
Video: The psychology of violence with Peter Fonagy
Peter Fonagy talks about the psychology of violence.
Understanding misunderstandings
Curiousness and openness are important elements in mentalization based treatment. It’s about exploring what’s going on in the mind of others and in your own mind.
Mentalizing is among other things about understanding misunderstandings. This video is an example of a therapist doing exactly this.
Movie recommendation: Precious
The movie ”Precious” from 2009 is about young girl in the US who lives in an environment characterized by both physical and emotional neglect.
Video: Dan Siegel explains mirror neurons
Dr. Dan Siegel explains mirror neurons and seeing the intention behind another person’s action.
Video about how shame changes your client’s brain
This video is a brief introduction to an interesting video conference about shame with all the big theorists in the field of trauma.