The Relationship Group Seminar: Trauma-Bonding
Trauma-bonding refers to an unconscious attachment strategy that may occur in many types of relationships, including those in the romantic, work, and familial domains. The fundamental dynamic at the core of the trauma-bond is one partner’s adaptational/accommodating...
The Men’s Group Seminar: Robert Sapolsky on Stress and Stress-Related Disease
A neuroendocrinologist by training, Robert Sapolsky, Ph.D. began his career studying the social behavior of baboons in Kenya. He eventually linked this ongoing field work to understanding the stress-response cycle in humans and its relationship to disease. He has...
The Relationship Group Seminar: “Coercive Control”
Author of “Invisible Chains: Overcoming Coercive Control in Your Intimate Relationship,” Dr. Lisa Aronson Fontes focuses her work on the often subtle yet highly manipulative and controlling dynamics that may emerge in abusive relationships. Coercion is usually...
The Men’s Group Seminar: Self-Talk
In his book “Chatter: The Voice in our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It,” psychologist Ethan Kross describes the intrusive, debilitating power of negative self-talk. Our “inner voices” can literally take us over, creating a dynamic in which we lose control...
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