Trauma & Attachment Therapy

Bainbridge Book-Signing Party

Book Signing Party!

On Beautiful Bainbridge Island

June 14, 2-5PM

 

Sandra Paulsen, Ph.D & Robin Shapiro, MSW, LCSW will be there to sign and read excerpts of their 2009 books. We may have a special guest reader, Yaak Panksepp.
Bring your checkbook if you want to buy a book. Save shipping costs!

Location: 9054 Battle Point Dr. NE, Bainbridge, Island, WA 98110
At the log house in the woods of Sandra Paulsen, Ph. D and Tim Iistowanohpataakiiwa, MA. Weather permitting, there will be a campfire in the pasture with the horses.

From Seattle: Take the Bainbridge Ferry to wy 305, turn left at the third light--Sportsman's Road--and an immediate right on New Brooklyn. The next light is Miller Road, turn right, go two blocks, then left on Battle Point Drive. Follow the S curve to the very top of the hill. Turn tight at the big cedar mailbox at 9065 Battle Point Dr., and veer right at the fork in the driveway. If you pass Bainbridge Gardens on the left you have gone too far.

From Poulsbo: Take Hwy 305 across Agate Pass Bridge to the first light. Turn right on Miller Road and veer left. Go straight for several miles. Turn right just past Bainbridge Gardens, onto Battle Point Drive. Follow the S curve to the very top of the hill. Turn tight at the big cedar mailbox at 9065 Battle Point Dr., and veer right at the fork in the driveway.

Presented by Sandra Paulsen, Ph. D. and the Bainbridge Institute for Integrative Psychology.

For more information:
206-855-1133
sandra@paulsenphd.com
www.bainbridgepsychology.com

"Mental" Is Terrible

There's a new fantasy show on Fox: Mental. It's supposed to take place in an inpatient psych unit.

So, first, the new head of psychiatry strips down in a room full of clients to connect with a psychotic guy who has pulled his clothes off. Later, he breaks into a woman's house in order to check out his hunch that her schizophrenic brother is an artist. And he thinks it's a good idea for his patients to go cold turkey off their antipsychotic medications. And he doesn't lose his contract, immediately.

All the psychiatrists are cute. All the patients are reasonable. The families just don't understand. And the residents and other psychiatrists have endless time to spend with their clients. Oh, and they invented a radical new idea: intensive outpatient day treatment.

I saw bad treatment, silly ideas, and a romanticization of extreme mental illness. I saw nearly every 1960's cliche possible. It's really bad. Except that all the psychiatrists are cute. And the new head of psychiatry looks to be about 32. That would happen, too.

 

Spirituality and Neuroscience

There was a great series on National Public Radio this week about the neuroscience of spirituality. I'm going to post links to all 5 days. You can read about it and then play the pieces if you want. They're by Barbara Bradley Haggerty and each is 7 to 9 minutes.

1. Is there a God chemical?                     http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104240746

2. Are Spiritual Encounters All in Your Head? http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104291534

3. Prayer May Reshape Your Brain, and your Reality: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104310443

4. Can Positive Thoughts Heal Another Person: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104351710

5. Decoding the Mystery of Near Death Experiences: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104397005

Daphne Merkin on Her Chronic Depression

Daphne Merkin, a New York Times writer, articulately recounts her history and hospitalization for Depression:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/magazine/10Depression-t.html?pagewanted=all

Connie Sidles Interview: Grief, meaning, presence and bliss

Connie Sidles is a famous Seattle birder. Here is this week's KUOW radio interview with her about why she spends so many hours at the Montlake Fill. Connie gives a cogent discussion of dealing with grief, how to create/have meaning in life, how to get present, and why birding creates bliss in its more conscious adherents. Hear her here: http://kuow.org/program.php?id=17451

And if you want to see my husband's book of photographs of the Montlake Fill, go here: http://issuu.com/dougplummer/docs/at_the_fill . You don't have to buy the book to see the pictures. Click on the book then on the pages below. You can listen to Connie on one Explorer and look at the book on the other. Connie wrote the intro to the book.