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Ana Kozomara-Lund

@ananeurogeek.bsky.social

Psychotherapist. Neuro-Geek. Interested in all things integration neuroscience psychotherapy. ❀️🧠www.neuroscienceandpsychotherapy.com/feed Not much on here - find me on Substack @neuroscienceandpsy neuroscienceandpsy.substack.com

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Concept Creep Gives Me Creeps Semantic shape shifting of psychotherapy language that gives me the creeps. Attachment concepts are creeping, nervous system terminology is creeping. And FFS, even falling in love now has a clinical n...

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On the idea of β€œconcept creep”.

How #psychotherapy concepts shapeshift and sometimes lose their meaning leading to pathologisation of everyday life.

www.neuroscienceandpsychotherapy.com/post/concept...

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Major #neurobollocks pervasive in psychotherapy.

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The Sandman Effect Co-regulation gone bad. On bio-behavioural synchrony, psychotherapy, emotional contagion and the Sandman Effect.Say your prayers, little oneDon't forget, my sonTo include everyoneI tuck you in, warm w...

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The new blog post on the β€œSandman Effect”.

www.neuroscienceandpsychotherapy.com/post/the-san...

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Indeed. Add the ego of each discipline into the mix and there you have an explosive combo. When I say ego, I mean the egos of professions not yourself or Nicole. You are both demonstrating openess by engaging in an interdisciplinary discussion (no matter how prickly these might be).

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I see truth in both views. These conversations are hard, but locking horns in that way is very important to get the two fields to understand each other’ needs better. Thank you both for putting yourselves out there (even if it is hard) πŸ™β€οΈπŸ§ 

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So Happy Together: Deconstructing The Right Brain/Left Brain Myth We carefully examine the claims around emotional lateralisation of the human brain, right-to-right hemisphere interbrain synchrony, attachment and the idea of β€˜right brain’ psychotherapy

On the Right 🧠/Left 🧠 narrative in #psychotherapy.
This piece might just ruffle a few psychotherapy feathers πŸͺΆπŸͺΆπŸ§¨

Neuroscientist Dr Pascal Vrticka @pvrticka.bsky.social helps me get to the bottom of what is fact and what fiction. Enjoy.
www.neuroscienceandpsychotherapy.com/post/right-b...

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So Happy Together: Deconstructing The Right Brain/Left Brain Myth We carefully examine the claims around emotional lateralisation of the human brain, right-to-right hemisphere interbrain synchrony, attachment and the idea of β€˜right brain’ psychotherapy

Today, together with brilliant Dr @ananeurogeek.bsky.social, we do some more #MythBusting: "So happy together: Deconstructing the right #brain / left brain #myth".

www.neuroscienceandpsychotherapy.com/post/right-b...

#neuroskyence #DevSci #DevPsy #PsychSciSky #CogSci #Psychotherapy #Neurobollocks

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#Attachment #MythBusting #28: #Neurobollocks

Adding a #neuroscience element to claims about attachment can be helpful, but often results in "neurobollocks".

πŸ‘‰πŸ»https://pvrticka.com/attachment-myth-busting/#28

h/t @ananeurogeek.bsky.social - www.neuroscienceandpsychotherapy.com/feed

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You’ve gotta love little #attachment #neurobollocks

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Goodbye Lizard Brain🦎🧠 Only lizards have lizard brains. Why the Triune brain theory deserves a bad rap. And four good reasons why we should not use it in psychotherapy.The lizard brain is the classic, original neurobollocks...

New blog post on the classic #neurobollocks the lizard #brain with focus on #psychotherapy. The triune brain gets a bad rap too.
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#therapy #neuroscience
www.neuroscienceandpsychotherapy.com/post/goodbye...

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The Devil You Know: The Free Energy Principle And Psychotherapy Ideas of active inference and free energy minimisation applied to human relations and psychotherapy.

New blogpost exploring how the ideas around active inference, #brain and the free #energy principle could apply to change in #psychotherapy.

www.neuroscienceandpsychotherapy.com/post/free-en...

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Caz is there a trend for unpaid work? I am disconnected a bit as working in private practice, so curious to get up to speed what’s happening.

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Will check it out.

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