The Enchanted LoomTeasing sturdy threads from

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Teasing 10 threads from Louis Cozolino’s …

Thread 1:

Psychotherapy is not a modern invention, but a relationship-based learning environment grounded in the history of our social brains. Thus the roots go back to mother-child bonding ...

(pg. 17)

Thread 2:

Central tenets of psychotherapy include express- ing the unexpressed, making the uncon- scious conscious, and integrating thoughts and feelings.

(pg. 14)

Thread 3:

When children are traumatized, abused or neglected, they grow up with states of mind, emotions and im- nmunological functioning that are incongruent with health and long- term survival. In other words, what doesn’t kill us, makes us weaker.(pg. 89)

Thread 4:

Overall, the difference between a secure and insecure attachment style is this – secure attach- ments help to regulate arousal and anxiety while insecure attachments do not.(pg. 105)

Thread 5:

Fear becomes reinforced through avoidance and inhibited by confrontation. This is why a decrease in avoidance behavior is highly corre- lated with therapeutic success.(pg. 20)

Thread 6:

Core shame is stored in unconscious mem- ory as something we never remember learning, but never forget – a central aspect of the unthought known.(pg. 124)

Thread 7:

As we grow older, we often forget that we can change our stories, and we may become symptomatic when an old identity no longer fits who we’ve become.

(pg. 26 )

Thread 8:

A powerful correlate of therapeutic success is the reduction of approach anxiety. We practice approaching what we are afraid of in order to retrain our amygdala and our sympathetic nervous system not to get acti- vated by what’s been paired with danger.

(pg. 255)

Thread 9:

The best way to combat pain is through a combination of anger and vulnerability, the two things that shame drives us to avoid.(pg. 256)

Thread 10:

If we go down a layer or two, below the anger, resentment and shame, sooner or later we all get to the fear of abandonment.

(pgs. 257)

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