Welcome to CSAR
Welcome to CSAR — an educational resource for clinicians interested in learning and deepening their understanding of affect regulation theory and its applications. Along with content directly about affect regulation theory, we will cover the fields that contribute to it; attachment theory, interpersonal neurobiology, traumatology, dissociative studies, psychoanalysis and mother-infant studies.
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History: From PsyBC to CSAR
In the late 1980’s my brother, the host of NPR’s "Music from the Hearts of Space" and a serious nerd, introduced me to the internet. The educational potential and implications jumped out at me.
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CSAR Bloggers
Renowned clinicians and scholars share their thinking and experience on CSAR's blog. Some of the initial authors and topics are listed below, followed by a complete roster of our bloggers for 2016-2017.
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Welcome to CSAR
Welcome to CSAR — an educational resource for clinicians interested in learning and deepening their understanding of affect regulation theory …Read More »
What Is Trauma?
Statistics and common experience tell us that exposure to trauma is common to human beings. , to greater and lesser …Read More »
Resonance and Synchrony
A decade of research focused on the neurobiology of attachment clearly shows that primary caregivers regulate their children’s affect, which …Read More »
Exploring the Prenatal Origins of Our Core Beliefs and Behaviors
Our biological parents’ experiences before we were conceived, and during our gestation in our mothers’ wombs, shaped the quality of …Read More »