Polyvagal Theory A Primer
Abstract This chapter provides an overview of the Polyvagal Theory. The chapter is organized to facilitate an understanding of the constructs embedded in the theory…
Author: Stephen Porges
The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory – Ch 13
THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF FEELING SAFE: Thoughts and Feelings: Reflections of the Brain and Body The important role of “safety” in our life is so intuitive…
Appeasement: replacing Stockholm syndrome as a definition of a survival strategy
Stockholm syndrome or traumatic bonding (Painter & Dutton, Patterns of emotional bonding in battered women: Traumatic bonding. International Journal of Women’s Studies, 8(4), 363–375, 1985)…
The Moderating Effect of Practicing Body Psychotherapy
Research shows the disruptive effects of early maltreatment on the autonomic nervous system (ANS) functioning in adulthood. Psychotherapists not only tend to report higher rates…
Polyvagal Theory: A Science of Safety
Contemporary strategies for health and wellbeing fail our biological needs by not acknowledging that feelings of safety emerge from inside the body. This paper focuses…
Polyvagal Theory: A biobehavioral journey to sociality
A polyvagal perspective clarifies the neurobiological and biobehavioral shifts that occurred during evolutionary transition from asocial reptiles to social mammals. This transition enabled mammals, unlike…
Clinical Neuropsychiatry
The COVID-19 Pandemic is a Paradoxical Challenge to Our Nervous System: A Polyvagal Perspective Abstract: The spread of the SARSCov2 virus presents an unprecedented event…
Adversity History Predicts Self-Reported Autonomic Reactivity and Mental Health in US Residents During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The spread of the COVID-19 virus presents an unprecedented event that rapidly introduced widespread life threat, economic destabilization, and social isolation. The human nervous system…
Increased Autonomic Reactivity and Mental Health Difficulties in COVID-19 Survivors: Implications for Medical Providers
Because there is a relationship between mental health (MH) and medical adversity and autonomic dysregulation, we hypothesized that individuals infected with COVID-19 would report greater…
A New Measure of Feeling Safe: Developing Psychometric Properties of the Neuroception of Psychological Safety Scale (NPSS)
Liza Morton served as lead for writing—original draft and contributed equally to conceptualization, data curation, formal analysis, investigation, methodology, project administration, resources, supervision, validation, and…
