The Harbor

06/07/2025

New studies show that childhood trauma can rewire the brain and nervous system, leading to lasting changes in emotional regulation and physical health. Areas like the amygdala and prefrontal cortex are deeply affected, often causing anxiety, hypervigilance, or chronic illness in adults. Healing is possible through neuroplasticity and trauma-informed therapies.

09/15/2024

“anxiety appears in this extraordinarily evanescent relationship when the subject peels away from his existence, however imperceptible this may be, and when he realises, though scarcely so, that he is on the verge of being drawn back into something that you may label as you wish depending on the occasion - image of the other, temptation, and so on - in short, the instant when the subject is suspended between a moment at which he no longer knows where he is, and a shift towards the moment when he will become something in which he will never be able to find himself again. That is what anxiety is.”
Jacques Lacan, Seminar IV, The Object Relation, page 218

Thanks Peroetuo Socorro

09/13/2024

Higher honesty in romantic couples correlates with enhanced brain synchronization

Romantic couples exhibit higher brain synchronization during interactions compared to strangers, with stronger neural connections linked to greater honesty, according to new research.

09/11/2024

“When I have promised my patients help or improvement by means of cathartic treatment I have often been faced by this objection:

‘Why, you tell me yourself that my illness is probably connected with my circumstances and the events of my life. You cannot alter these in any way. How do you propose to help me, then?’

And I have been able to make this reply:

‘There is no doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would be for me to do that. But you will see for yourself that much will have been gained if we succeed in turning your hysterical misery into common unhappiness. With a mental life that has been restored to health, you will be better armed against that unhappiness’.”

Sigmund Freud’s closing lines, Studies on Hysteria, 1895. Pic credit: Marie Bonaparte.

08/02/2024

Don't be ugly!! Lol

A new study reveals a surprising connection between high school yearbook photos and lifespan, suggesting that how we look might play a more significant role in our health and longevity than previously thought.

08/01/2024

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