Cultural Alexithymia in an Evolutionary Context
In the 1970’s Clare Graves (a developmental psychologist and researcher) proposed a theory, based on research, that societal values evolve in a fixed sequence over time; stage-to-stage or level-to-level. His work was subsequently elaborated upon by Chris Cowan and Donald Beck in an more accessible format called “Spiral Dynamics“. In this system individuals within a culture have…
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Emotional Clearing in Meditation
In November 2015 my life circumstances underwent a rare convergence of events, all sorts of things fell into place, and I was able to participate in a one-month Co-working Retreat Program at the Center for Mindful Learning in Vermont (I highly recommend this retreat center). As excited as I was, I was also quite…
We Are All Alexithymic
A nine minute talk presented at the symposium “Working With Feelings: Affect and the Practice of Everyday Life”, St. John’s College, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (March 12, 2010). BEF we_are_all_alexithymic_v5
The Nine Core Feelings
I “discovered” these nine core feelings after three years of data collection with my clients (presented at the 2010 Integral Theory Conference). After I arranged them into this table their relationships and meanings became much clearer and this table became the foundation of the Bio-Emotive Framework, giving rise to the three-step sequence of emotional processing:…
Welcome to the Bio-Emotive Framework
I hope you enjoy the site. For many people, the material here will challenge the way you see the world and, I hope, the way you see mental health. For the last 50 years or so psychology has been dominated by the cognitive-behaviorism and psychiatry has been dominated by the bio-medical and pharmaceutical philosophies of mental…