Multiple Trauma Vortex (1)
“What is it?” The client asked me this as she felt her head, all on its own, turn gently to the right — as if about to look at something over there. Her question meant, “What past trauma is this experience related to?” So, here’s the fundamental problem. Even in somatic psychotherapy circles we still […]
What is Resilience? (OI Tenet #3)
Resilience is the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties. In the world of positive psychology, resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or significant sources of stress, such as family and relationship problems, serious health problems, or workplace and financial stressors. Resilience, in that context, means bouncing […]
Somatic Self-Similarity: The Fractal Nature of Body & Mind (OI Tenet #2)
OI Tenet #2: The importance of somatic psychology for mapping the phases of the nervous system, providing a clinical approach unique to Organic Intelligence. Somatic psychology claims a clinical and intellectual lineage from many sources, including the legacy of psychodynamics from Reich, Freud, etc. In fact, this young field has grown to the point of documenting its source materials, i.e. […]
A New Threshold: Trauma Means Unintegrated Resource (OI Tenet 1, Pt. 2)
Summary: This article outlines the major themes taught in the Organic Intelligence clinical protocol. Key terms are discussed: complexity, threshold, 3-Phase model, implicit vs explicit, and self-organization. “Working the physiology using trauma, not working the trauma using physiology”: This is Part 2, click here for Part 1. Around the world, Organic Intelligence® (OI) has taught […]
Working the Physiology using Trauma, not Working the Trauma using Physiology (OI Tenet 1, Pt. 1)
OI Tenet #1: “Working the physiology using trauma, not working the trauma using physiology”: This article gives a brief survey of the historical context of one branch of trauma therapy and Organic Intelligence®. The shortcomings of trauma therapy are historical, social, and biological. The failure to understand the biology from the well-established science of complexity is the […]
10 Tenets of Organic Intelligence
“What is Organic Intelligence®?” “How can I be more successful in my practice?” I hope you’ve been able to sign on to receive my tweets on these, but here are the 10 Tenets from which the tweets arise, and which help to solve some of the main problems of therapy: Here are the 10 main […]
The Right to Project: Organic Intelligence & New Integrative Tools
I remember in graduate school in clinical psychology, there was a change in the way heated discussions took place. Ways of winning arguments became more psychologized. Like the spells cast at Hogwarts, the “You’re PROJECTING!” was one of the more common attacks. The pejorative nature of projection stems from Freudian perspectives of projection as one […]
The Birth of Organic Intelligence
Over the past year and a half, with the help of many people around the world, I’ve been assembling a learning portal and brand new Organic Intelligence® training program at organicintelligence.org. This process has been one like birth, and if you know me, it’s not just a professional thing, it’s the forum for engaging in the […]
