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Book Review: The Right Brain and the Origin of Human Nature by Allan Schore
A Chapter-by-Chapter Summary of the Book Below is a full-book, chapter-by-chapter summary. The core concepts are distilled, and along with their direct applications for incest trauma, its long-term effects, why it’s so hard to heal, and what healing actually requires. Trauma deserves reverence. Neuroscience deserves clarity. The text establishes one central thesis: Human nature originates in the unconscious, right-brain-dominant relational processes formed in early attachment. These processes shape stress regulation, emotional development, personality, trauma vulnerability, and the…
The Genius of Dr. Allan Schore
Dr. Allan Schore work bridges neuroscience, attachment theory, and psychoanalysis, helping us see how early relational trauma literally wires the brain for survival, and how, through safe connection, it can rewire for healing.
What Ellert Nijenhuis Taught Us About Dissociation and the Incest Survivor’s Journey Home
Understanding The Haunted Self When the Body Becomes the Keeper of Secrets There are some wounds so deep they don’t bleed. Yet, they still split us into pieces. For many survivors of incest, that split becomes the quiet architecture of their entire being. On the surface, life may look functional, careers built, families raised, smiles practiced to perfection. But underneath? There’s a house divided. A body that flinches at softness. A heart that doesn’t quite trust the hands that reach for it. A mind that forgets, not because it wants to, but because remembering would mean reliving the…
The Long-Term Effects of Childhood Sexual Abuse: Counseling Implications – Article Review
Common long-term effects such as depression, anxiety, shame, dissociation, eating disorders, sexual dysfunction, and difficulty forming intimate relationships. CSA consistently disrupts core aspects of identity, trust, and safety.
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