Expanded States of Safety: Exploring Trauma Through a Polyvagal Lens
Stephen W. Porges, PhD, is Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University where he is the founding director of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium. He is a professor of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, and Professor Emeritus at both the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Maryland. He is a past president of the Society for Psychophysiological Research and the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences and a recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Development Award. He has published more than 300 peer-reviewed papers across multiple disciplines.
In 1994, he proposed the Polyvagal Theory, a theory that links the evolution of the mammalian autonomic nervous system to social behavior and emphasizes the importance of physiological state in the expression of behavioral problems and psychiatric disorders. He is the author of Our Polyvagal World: How Safety and Trauma Change Us, The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe, and The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-regulation, and co-editor of Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory: The Emergence of Polyvagal-Informed Therapies. His website is stephenporges.com
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