FEST Writing Group

My first FESTWG post was about my effort to refine a reliable method for clinical research to observe and document shifts in the family emotional process that impact clinical disorders for better and for worse.  Sometime in the last year or so as I’ve worked at this project I began to focus on the phenomena.

Emotional climate change in a baboon troop In 1978, neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky began spending summers each year in the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya studying and “virtually living with” a troop of free-ranging savanna baboons. He named them the Forest Troop. His early research focused on the relationship between social rank and stress-related.

This is part of my attempt to absorb relevant facts from recent research about learning and central nervous system plasticity. October 5, 2014 Brain Plasticity Jim Edd Jones The brain is dynamic, changeable, and continually fluctuating. Until the last 35-40 years, the central nervous system was thought to be fixed and unchangeable once it had completed its developmental.

Note: I have a notion that I would like to introduce a little Bowen theory to the public conversation about domestic violence. I have cred: I was part of a violence-spawning marriage for 11 years. Things broke. I got hurt. And, remarkably, Bowen theory helped me think my way through it. The marriage didn’t survive, but.