There are quite different views on trauma psychotherapy out there. I recently attended a clinical talk where the speaker (a psychiatrist) talked about a new intensive exposure therapy (#DBT oriented) in an inpatient setting for people with #PTSD and #CPTSD.

🧵 1/10 In the speaker’s view, stabilisation is overrated. They argued for more intense exposure to traumatic memories to help people processing more efficiently instead of having them to go through “endless” phases of stabilisation first.

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How does posture constrain the developing bodily self? Hot off the press from #ChildDevelopment, may I introduce to you our article on #BodyRepresentation in #childhood? w/ @dcowiedurham, @Andy_Bremner, @SamKeenaghan et al)
@DurhamPsych @Uppsala_BabyLab bit.ly/2C8Ao0Z What is this article about?

The feeling of inhabiting a body is fundamental for self-experience. Here, localisation of our body parts (e.g. hands) and the feeling of ownership over it are crucial. We wanted to know how different postures of hands impacts #BodyRepresentation.

How does posture constrain body representation in childhood? Our article (w/ @dcowiedurham, @Andy_Bremner, @SamKeenaghan et al) answering this question was just accepted for publication - HURRAY! 🥳

preprint: bit.ly/2vaMIKO What is this article about?

The feeling of inhabiting a #body is fundamental for self-experience. In adults, knowledge about possible body postures constrains #BodyRepresentation. Here, we test whether and how posture constrains body representation in 6-7 y’olds.

“To understand how infants come to be able to control the forceful interactions of their bodies with their environment is to gain insight into the nature of cognitive processes as they emerge.” - Port & van Gelder (1995) about Esther Thelen’s perspective on human development Thelen (1995): “What infants do in everyday life, what they perceive, how they act, and what they remember are joined seamlessly to how they think. ...

J.J. #Gibson on non-visual #perception, #proprioception, and the importance of #movement for #selfperception: “The point (...) is that information about the #self is multiple and that all kinds are picked up concurrently.” #SummerReading We need vision for movement. Walking: feeling contact of feet w/ ground isn’t everything! “You might think that the contact of(...) the foot with a surface (...) is specified by a mechanical impression of skin, by touch (...). Nevertheless there is optical specification.” #Gibson