The Space Between Reaction and Regulation
Article #040 · Collection Two
How this field may influence trauma treatment even as regulation, evidence, training, and ethics continue to evolve.
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How this field may influence trauma treatment even as regulation, evidence, training, and ethics continue to evolve.
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The Knowledge Graph
A clear distinction between a structured investigational treatment model and recreational MDMA use.
How changes in fear, affiliation, trust, and emotional processing may affect psychotherapy.
An introduction to Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing and its structured treatment phases.
Why preparation, assessment, memory targets, body awareness, stabilization, and integration matter.
Explicit and Implicit Memory within memory science — the science, the human experience, and why it belongs inside Nervous System Intelligence as a practice.
Episodic Memory within memory science — the science, the human experience, and why it belongs inside Nervous System Intelligence as a practice.
Peer-Reviewed Research
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Nirva Relevance —Relevant to displacement, loss of safety, systemic trauma, dignity, and the need for survivor-informed services.
Nirva Relevance —Found that relationships between childhood adversity and adult mental health persisted after accounting for shared genetic and environmental factors.
Nirva Relevance —Connects clinician dysregulation and burnout with healthcare quality, errors, safety culture, missed care, and patient experience. This is highly relevant to the Nirva Institute and future hospital programming.
Nirva Relevance —Found low-to-moderate-certainty evidence for improvements in quality of life, stress, sleep, and depressive symptoms; conclusions should remain appropriately cautious.
Nirva Relevance —Supports the role of relational support in rebuilding meaning and perceiving growth following trauma.
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