How Outdated Pseudoscience ( Polyvagal/Triune) Undermines Therapy Effectiveness

Описание: When thought leaders, influencers, and best-selling authors don't update the science they're using to sell their products, these outdated ideas aren’t just academic errors — they undermine psychotherapy’s credibility and, more importantly, can disempower those seeking help for their mental problems. Polyvagal Institute, The Body Keeps the Score, and Somatic Experiencing are just a few of the major brands of therapy or best-selling authors who have not updated the science they use to sell their products. I take no issue with their methods, it's their outdated science that I'm addressing.

To those who want more data, take your own dive into the deep end of 21st-century brain/emotion science and the debunking of old paradigms. The following bibliography will set you on your course.

Suvak MK, Barrett LF. Considering PTSD from the perspective of brain processes: a psychological construction approach. J Trauma Stress. 2011 Feb;24(1):3-24. doi: 10.1002/jts.20618. Epub 2011 Feb 4. PMID: 21298725; PMCID: PMC3141586.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

"How Emotions are Made, The Secret Life of the Brain" by Lisa Feldman Barrett
https://amzn.to/4dvxakh

"The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality" by Andy Clark
https://amzn.to/4frUcud

"Seven and a Half Lessons about the Brain" by Lisa Feldman Barrett
https://amzn.to/46ymL56

"What Is Health?: Allostasis and the Evolution of Human Design" by Peter Sterling
https://amzn.to/4dh59xi

"After 30 years of "polyvagal" hypotheses, is there any direct evidence for the first 3 premises that form the foundation of the polyvagal conjectures?"
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Aft...

"The evolution of sociality and the polyvagal theory"
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

"Fundamental challenges and likely refutations of the five basic premises of the polyvagal theory"
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

"Toward understanding respiratory sinus arrhythmia: Relations to cardiac vagal tone, evolution and biobehavioral functions," 2005
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

"Signal processing in the vagus nerve: Hypotheses based on new genetic and anatomical evidence"
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37419...

"An overview of the phylogeny of cardiorespiratory control in vertebrates with some reflections on the ‘Polyvagal Theory’"
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

"Allostasis: A model of predictive regulation"
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

"The theory of constructed emotion: an active inference account of interoception and categorization"
https://academic.oup.com/scan/article...

"The free energy principle made simpler but not too simple"
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

"Active Inference and Cognitive Consistency" Friston, 2018.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...

"Functional anatomy of the vagus system: How does the polyvagal theory comply?"
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36100...

"Active inference and the two-step task"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

"”Polyvagal theory” is pseudoscience. Here’s why.
The deeper you dig, the worse it gets."
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