Stephen Porges on Treating Trauma and Compassion

Kathy Brous 9/26/1411:40 AM

Dr. Stephan Porges discovered in 1994 that trauma in humans comes from our most ancient "reptilian" freeze reflex, as I wrote last week.

But Porges also says we can use our mammalian attachment system to heal this.

Here are a few short (and two long) Porges videos, since his Polyvagal Theory is pretty darn complex.

I really like "The Science of Compassion," his talk at the Stanford University conference of the same name.

Links are at: http://attachmentdisorderheali.../Porges-Polyvagal-2/

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