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11 Dr. Greg Siegle: What if Freaking Out and Shutting Down are Perfectly Normal?
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2019/7/25
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Lecture at the University of Amsterdam: “what if freaking out and shutting down are completely normal?”
Why do most mental health interventions aim to decrease emotions?
Do 'healthy' people dissociate every day?
Are freaking out and shutting down part of the process?
Why is dissociation stigmatized in the mental health field?
What is the continuum from compartmentalization to total dissociation?
How does detachment in mindfulness relate to dissociation?
How does the pre-frontal cortex help us regain control?
Are we unconsciously regulating our emotions all the time?
Naked card experiment
Can you cry and disengage at work without consequences?
Does suppressing emotions affect performance?
Should we prevent people from using their coping mechanisms?
What if doctors and nurses are allowed to have emotions too?
A real-life example in Greg’s workplace
How does including 'allowing emotions' in interviews impact hiring?
Why do some Asian employees refrain from expressing emotions?
What does communicating and checking in look like as the new normal?
Do Black employees feel less safe expressing emotions?
How does allowing people to shut down help them recover?
Orgasmic meditation - does safety reduce issues for abuse survivors?
Why does a lack of safety prolong shutting down?
How are set and setting applied in psychology and psychiatry?
Is the lab the ideal place for stimulation or intervention?
What does it mean to 'lean in' to emotions?
Can allowing regulatory mechanisms to shut off be beneficial?
Chinese saying 'wuwei'
What if you don’t work too hard? Does allowing the process to play out work?
Can not regulating emotions work as well?
Depression: leaning in to rumination; taking back power
Can giving anxiety a 'worry time' help?
Does the world end if I ruminate right now? Does making rumination explicit reduce it?
Can you 'surf' high emotions and even enjoy them?
People like BDSM and haunted house playing with high arousal
Why is it hard to play with emotions in daily life?
Is emotional regulation just an individual effort, or does it involve power relations?
Are women more stigmatized for showing emotions at work?
What if workplace training included really hearing emotional expressions?
How does shutting down affect relationships?
Are emotions stored in the body?
The somatic marker hypothesis, formulated by Antonio Damasio
Where do you feel emotions in your body?
Can body awareness be double-edged?
What is our relationship with pain telling us?
Why not play with arousal?
Is one story about arousal more valid than another?
How can we make use of the slow time course of arousal?
Can make-up sex be a valid redirection of arousal?
How do artists use their hard emotions to create?
Can vibration lead to vigilance that’s neither positive nor negative?
Is meditation just about distancing?
Philippe Goldin, laughter meditation
Is detaching a form of spiritual bypassing?
Should you learn to swim and surf before diving into extraordinary states of mind?
What does neuroscience say about when to surf and when to dive?
Can allowing the dark side be part of every day help?
Can you use your 'darkness' as a great resource, as a superpower?
What is the middle way?
Is not stigmatizing reactions healing?
What is embodied dissociation?
Should we focus on changing environments along with individual emotional regulation?
What makes a better environment for depression?
Interpersonal therapy
Depressive realism
What about the socio-political causes of depression - fetishizing productivity?
Are both personal and structural changes needed?
How can local changes make a difference?
Be your own scientist, play with emotions, do not be scared of them
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