


The Self-Reg View: Calm Begets Calm
In the 18th and 19th centuries, the Biblical aphorism that one should “Pour oil on troubled waters” began to be seen in literal terms, as an empirical phenomenon worthy of study. Benjamin Franklin performed an experiment on a pond to prove the wisdom of this practice,...
Psychology Today: Help, I Don’t Speak Limbic!
Dr. Shanker’s latest article for Psychology Today explains how to talk to a teen when he’s “gone limbic.” “All too often, we misinterpret what a teen is “saying” because of mindblindness: i.e., we fail to recognize which state the child is in. The truth is...