Polyvagal Perspectives

Interventions, Practices, and Strategies (IPNB)

By: Stephen W. Porges

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Hardcover | 26 August 2024 | Edition Number 1

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Polyvagal Theory has revolutionized our understanding of the autonomic nervous system's profound impact on various aspects of life, including sociality, emotional regulation, cognitive functions, and overall mental and physical well-being. Through rigorous academic testing, the theory's applications have expanded into diverse fields such as psychotherapy, medicine, education, and performance. Exploring these broad applications revealed that Polyvagal Theory transcends its initial scope, and that the principles embedded in the theory could be applied as a generalized lens across various disciplines.

In this volume, Dr. Stephen W. Porges-the originator of Polyvagal Theory-presents a collection of recent writings that showcase the wide-ranging applications of the polyvagal perspective. The writings update the theory and delve into sociality, safety and threat, trauma, functional medicine, vagal nerve stimulation, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, addiction, compassion, management, and dance movement therapy. This newest volume of Dr. Porges's work demonstrates how adopting a polyvagal perspective enriches our understanding of biobehavioral processes in diverse domains.

About the Author

Stephen W. Porges, PhD, originator of Polyvagal Theory, is a Distinguished University Scientist and founding director of the Kinsey Institute Traumatic Stress Research Consortium at Indiana University, and a professor of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina. He lives in Atlantic Beach, Florida.

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Stephen Porges is the exemplar of an outstanding researcher and theorist who has translated his foundational work, Polyvagal Theory, into a transformative perspective on a diverse array of disorders that cause human suffering, as well as developed strategies for dealing with them. In Polyvagal Perspectives, Porges elaborates on the mediating role of the autonomic nervous system and how it provides us with a unifying mechanism for understanding psychotherapy, trauma, sociality, regulation, education, and much more. Indeed, his view that the polyvagal system underlies feelings of safety takes us on a journey from neurophysiology to how we experience the world and make meaning of ourselves within it.--Ed Tronick, PhD, professor of psychiatry and pediatrics, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, and coauthor with Claudia Gold of The Power of Discord
Stephen Porges's masterful theory of the nervous system is one of the most detailed, true to life portraits of the embodied nervous system--something we only had glimpses of, because of huge blind spots that Porges has remediated. Polyvagal Perspectives extends the range of a theory so important that it is painful to think what our understanding of the nervous system and human behavior would be without it. Hence my excitement, among so many, to see where Porges taken it in this latest volume, Polyvagal Perspectives.--Norman Doidge, MD, author of The Brain That Changes Itself and The Brain's Way of Healing

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