Neuroscience & Psychotherapy Blog

What matters for good therapy? Therapist's attachment, therapy key moments, client's preferences and more. New friendly facts. In his book  Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland , Lewis Carroll describes the following scene: After a swim, Dodo bird proposes to Alice and other birds to have a particular kind of race - a race where everyone wins. "Everybody has won, and all must have prizes!" - Dodo bird famously exclaims. It is the Dodo Bird verdict. The Dodo Bird Verdict  has famo

39 leading vagus experts give their verdict as to the polyvagal theory scientific claims, calling it 'an erroneous belief system' and untenable. Will therapists still go 'Nah, I think it's science"? This week saw  the publication of a bombshell  paper authored by an impressive lineup of 39 scientists, most of them the biggest names today in the autonomic nervous system control, physiology, anatomy and evolution of the vagus nerve. It’s titled  WHY   THE POLYVAGAL THEORY IS UN