Description:
The foundational role of safety in our lives.
Brief description: 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.
Review Quotes: 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 of which we only had glimpses of, because of some huge blind spots that Porges has remediated. This new book of seminal papers extends the range of a theory so important that its is painful to think what our understanding of the nervous system was like without it.--Norman Doidge, M.D., author of The Brain That Changes Itself and The Brain's Way of Healing