Newsletter – May 2021

Interesting Research:

• The Still Face: A History of a Shared Experimental Paradigm (See a short preview video here.)
• Eating Your Feelings: The Pandemic’s Impact on Comfort Eating
• Afternoon Naps Boost Mental Agility
• How COVID-19 Has Altered Our Perception of Time
• Brain fog: how trauma, uncertainty and isolation have affected our minds and memory

TWU Content Released this Month:

• Dialectical Behaviour Therapy – Prof Michaela Swales (Lecture)
• An Evolutionary Approach to a Meaningful Life – David Sloan Wilson (Interview)
• Attachment Theory and Psychotherapy: An Introduction (Blog post)
• Protecting the Rights of Future Generations – Roman Krznaric (Interview)
• This Simple Insight Can Change How You See Reality – Iain McGilchrist (Short Clip)

Books:

• Attachment in Practice – Sue Johnson
• I Don’t Want to Talk About it: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression – Terrence Real
• Empath and The Highly Sensitive – Judy Dyer
• Full Catastrophe living – John Kabat Zinn
• Existential Therapies – Mick Cooper
• Effortless – Greg McKeown
• The Art of Impossible – Steven Kotler
• Radical Acceptance – Tara Brach

Online Courses, Resources & Events:

• ACBS World Conference 2021
• Dr. Dan Siegel’s Comprehensive Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) Course
• Online Workshop on Existential Therapy with Professor Mick Cooper
• Process Based CBT for Anxiety with Professor Stefan Hofmann
• The Neurodiversity (ND) App

Documentaries:

• State of Mind with Claudia Hammond (Audio)
• “Matter of Heart” – The Classic Documentary on C.G. Jung
• Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive
• Using LSD, MDMA and Psilocybin to Treat Mental Health
• Hidden Brain: A Conversation About Life’s Unseen Patterns (Audio)

Quotes to Ponder:

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher. – Pema Chodron

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber

“Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.” – US Navy Seals

“If you can be absolutely comfortable with not knowing who you are, then what’s left is who you are – the Being behind the human, a field of pure potentiality rather than something that is already defined.” – Eckharte Tolle

“As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.” – Harrington Emerson