The Video Room
Welcome to The Video Room. Here you'll find a collection of videos - long and short - that you may find interesting, particularly within the context of the work we're doing. Most of the videos are by eminent psychologists, neuroscientists, and professors, who help to illuminate the underlying logic of Sequential Psychotherapy, while others explore common human issues and role human psychology in the broader landscape of society. Dig in, learn, enjoy!
World renowned Stanford neurobiologist Professor Robert Sapolsky talks about the brain's three major processing systems and the complex relationship they have with each other. In this short video he outlines the logic of my own Sequential Psychotherapy.
Harvard professor Michael Puett explores the idea of the "self", and how what you believe to be your true nature is actually just patterns you've fallen into. As human beings we absorb experience and use it to unconsciously construct our perception of self and reality - not always accurately - which can lead to problems in our relationship with ourselves and the world around us.
Mindfulness is big business. It is currently being touted as the solution to all manner of problems from anxiety and depression, to low self-esteem and relationship problems. Professor Michael Puett deeply questions this idea. 'Acceptance' is undoubtedly useful, and at times necessary, however it can lead to passivity where change is actually possible.
Dr. Vincent Felitti describes how adverse childhood experiences impact adult life. The reality is that no one has had a perfect childhood. Such a thing doesn't exist. What psychotherapists have known for years is that childhood experiences, from relatively minor to undeniably major, invariably affect our experience of life as adults, both positively and negatively. We don't experience the world as it is, but as we are. Fortunately change, healing, recovery, or growth is entirely possible.
Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio explains the complex survival implications of emotion, and how emotion serves as a distinct system for 'thinking' about, and perceiving the world. Emotion can precipitate cognition, yet cognition can equally arouse emotion. Emotion is fundamental in guiding decisions.
Neurologist Oliver sacks briefly discuses the functional differences in the right and left hemispheres of the human brain.
