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Ana Kozomara-Lund
@ananeurogeek.bsky.social
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Psychotherapist. Neuro-Geek. Interested in all things integration neuroscience psychotherapy.

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Not much on here - find me on Substack
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On the idea of “concept creep”.

How #psychotherapy concepts shapeshift and sometimes lose their meaning leading to pathologisation of everyday life.

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Concept Creep Gives Me Creeps
Semantic shape shifting of psychotherapy language that gives me the creeps. Attachment concepts are creeping, nervous system terminology is creeping. And FFS, even falling in love now has a clinical n...
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May 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Major #neurobollocks pervasive in psychotherapy.
pvrticka.bsky.social Pascal Vrticka @pvrticka.bsky.social · May 18
#Attachment #MythBusting #29: Getting stuck in certain “brain or nervous system states” - especially in relation to #insecure #attachment and #trauma.

👉🏻 pvrticka.com/attachment-m...

#neuroskyence #DevSci #DevPsy #PsychSciSky #CogSci #brain
May 19, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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🌊🧠🧟‍♀️Co-regulation gone bad.
The new blog post on the “Sandman Effect”.

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The Sandman Effect
Co-regulation gone bad. On bio-behavioural synchrony, psychotherapy, emotional contagion and the Sandman Effect.Say your prayers, little oneDon't forget, my sonTo include everyoneI tuck you in, warm w...
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May 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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On the Right 🧠/Left 🧠 narrative in #psychotherapy.
This piece might just ruffle a few psychotherapy feathers 🪶🪶🧨

Neuroscientist Dr Pascal Vrticka @pvrticka.bsky.social helps me get to the bottom of what is fact and what fiction. Enjoy.
www.neuroscienceandpsychotherapy.com/post/right-b...
So Happy Together: Deconstructing The Right Brain/Left Brain Myth
We carefully examine the claims around emotional lateralisation of the human brain, right-to-right hemisphere interbrain synchrony, attachment and the idea of ‘right brain’ psychotherapy
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April 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Reposted by Ana Kozomara-Lund
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Today, together with brilliant Dr @ananeurogeek.bsky.social, we do some more #MythBusting: "So happy together: Deconstructing the right #brain / left brain #myth".

www.neuroscienceandpsychotherapy.com/post/right-b...

#neuroskyence #DevSci #DevPsy #PsychSciSky #CogSci #Psychotherapy #Neurobollocks
So Happy Together: Deconstructing The Right Brain/Left Brain Myth
We carefully examine the claims around emotional lateralisation of the human brain, right-to-right hemisphere interbrain synchrony, attachment and the idea of ‘right brain’ psychotherapy
www.neuroscienceandpsychotherapy.com
April 26, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Reposted by Ana Kozomara-Lund
pvrticka.bsky.social
#Attachment #MythBusting #28: #Neurobollocks

Adding a #neuroscience element to claims about attachment can be helpful, but often results in "neurobollocks".

👉🏻https://pvrticka.com/attachment-myth-busting/#28

h/t @ananeurogeek.bsky.social - www.neuroscienceandpsychotherapy.com/feed
April 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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New blog post on the classic #neurobollocks the lizard #brain with focus on #psychotherapy. The triune brain gets a bad rap too.
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#therapy #neuroscience
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Goodbye Lizard Brain🦎🧠
Only lizards have lizard brains. Why the Triune brain theory deserves a bad rap. And four good reasons why we should not use it in psychotherapy.The lizard brain is the classic, original neurobollocks...
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April 14, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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New blogpost exploring how the ideas around active inference, #brain and the free #energy principle could apply to change in #psychotherapy.

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The Devil You Know: The Free Energy Principle And Psychotherapy
Ideas of active inference and free energy minimisation applied to human relations and psychotherapy.
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March 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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🔗💕🧠👥Do sex and #attachment work synergetically to strengthen the #relationship or are they opposing forces? Do attachment styles affect our #sex lives? I will discuss these❔ and more in the upcoming workshop. Self-select fee, so pop by.
#psychotherapy
#therapy
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Sex and Attavhment workshop banner
February 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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🧠🤔 And what if the #amygdala was not the bad boy it’s made out to be?
#psychotherapy #neuroscience #anxiety #mentalhealth #therapy
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Redeeming The Amygdala.
Can I change the way you think about this bad boy of neuroscience? Countering the simplistic narratives around the amygdala.
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February 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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#Therapy friends: what would you recommend as a go-to/concise resource book or website around working with (older) #adolescents /young adults?

Thanks a million 🙏 🙏

#TherapistSky
#YherapistsConnect
February 18, 2025 at 11:01 AM
ananeurogeek.bsky.social
I want this record!”Songs of Couch And Consultation”. It it’s a real thing. Was released in 1957!

#therapy
#psychotherapy
#TherapistsConnect
Album called Songs of Couch and Consultation
February 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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🔗🧠🩷📣I’ll be speaking about how to rethink working with #Attachment in #psychotherapy using insight from #social #neuroscience ( #SoNeAt ) in MHA Summit 22 March
It’s gonna be a cool talk with a cool name:
“Is Attachment the Fifth Element?” 🤪
It’s free, pop by!

www.mentalhealthacademy.co.uk/summit
2025 Mental Health Summit | Mental Health Academy
Join the UK’s largest online mental health conference for mental health professionals, featuring world-leading experts.
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February 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
ananeurogeek.bsky.social
In #therapy we ponder this question all the time 👀 :
How is it possible that two people experience something similar yet one can remain relatively unaffected while another with tremendous psychological damage or #trauma ? Explanation probably along these lines 👇👇
#psychotherapy
#TherapistSky
wiringthebrain.bsky.social Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · Feb 5
My view: our genes *influence* our psychological predispositions, which *influence* the way we adapt and respond to life's circumstances, shaping our habits and character in the process... (but none of those influences are deterministic)
a diagram showing the interplay of innate predispositions with our own choices
February 6, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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🔗🫦Time for some sexy talk 😉

Does your #attachment style influence your #sex life?
Humans have a complicated relationship to sex and here I explore how #attachment affects making whoopee. Enjoy.
#psychotherapy
#sextherapy #couples #relationships

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(Secure) Attachment Is the Warmest Colour
In sex, as in life, is secure attachment the optimal strategy? On how your attachment style influences your sex life.
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February 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Therapists’ favourite: #epigenetic transgenerational #trauma transmission. So much hype so little evidence 🧬🔬😳.
Precise and concise summary 👌👇
#psychotherapy
#therapy
#TherapistsConnect
#TherapistSky
January 31, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Reposted by Ana Kozomara-Lund
mentalhealthsky.bsky.social
I’ve neglected posting because many people follow me but don’t seem to interact with my posts;

What would be an interesting topic related to mental health that you’d like to hear about in a quick 300 word tip or insight? I have given talks on dozens of issues… ask me!
January 31, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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⛓️‍💥🩷📌And the 4 adult #attachment styles in BW. Feel free to use 😊
#therapy
#psychotherapy
#TherapistsConnect
#TherapistSky
Adult attachment styles.
January 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Did you know women twice as likely to experience #anxiety or #depressive disorders? Great 📰 on how to study 🧠, esp vulnerability to #mentalhealth cond while taking into account the evolving complexities of #sex and #gender.
#therapy
@kundakoviclab.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differen...
Revisiting sex and gender in the brain
To conduct scientifically accurate and socially responsible research, think of “sex” as a complex, multifactorial and context-dependent variable.
www.thetransmitter.org
January 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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⛓️‍💥🩷🧠 Keeping someone at arms length not = #avoidant Feeling that that text can’t come soon enough not = #anxious when it comes to #attachment . We discuss the #Barnum effect & other misconceptions around #attachment (with @pvrticka.bsky.social )
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Attachment Shadow.
On the Barnum Effect, how the meaning of attachment concepts can get lost in translation, attachment neurobollocks, and, as a bonus: everything you ever wanted to know about attachment (but were afrai...
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January 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Another “Against therapy” account. We get a bad rep these days, I feel. With many things I agree, and even more things I disagree. One thing is sure: man is not afraid to question the foundations and it seems to be coming from the heart, and for that I applaud. Good food for thought.
#psychotherapy
jimmycoan.bsky.social Jim Coan @jimmycoan.bsky.social · Jan 21
"No other culture that I know of believes that bad events create indelible stains on our minds, stains that forever taint our experience of the world... Telling people that they have been harmed forever by others in their lives creates resentment and harms relationships"
I am a better therapist since I let go of therapeutic theory | Aeon Essays
For twenty years, I was a practising psychotherapist. Today I believe it has no foundation in science and often causes harm
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January 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Have you heard of the little island?
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#psychotherapy #neuroscience #empathy #feelings #brain #neurocounseling #TherapistsConnect
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Little Island
Little island at the neural crossroads. With big role for humans, mind-body connection and psychotherapy.Have you heard of the insula, I wonder? The word 'insula' means 'island' in Latin, but it’s al...
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January 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Reposted by Ana Kozomara-Lund
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How is the memorability of an image influenced by how it makes us feel?

@hartwakeland.bsky.social created an image set (VAMOS) of over 900 scene images, along with their valence, arousal, and memorability ratings. They then showed that *moderately* negative images are more memorable!

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Sample images sorted by evoked valence/arousal and memorability. Scene images were selected to span a wide range of average valence and arousal scores. The figure above shows examples of memorable and forgettable images from across the spectra of valence and arousal. Examples include a tornado (negative and memorable), pollution from a factory (negative and forgettable), a field of sunflowers (positive and memorable), a frosty field in early morning (positive and forgettable), a car crash (high arousal and memorable), and a mountain scene (high arousal and forgettable).
January 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
ananeurogeek.bsky.social
Guys! A thread about #anxiety from the perspective of interaction between the #genetics and the lived experience 🙇🏻‍♀️🧬. By a genetic counsellor. I did not know genetic counselling existed, you learn something every day. Interesting! 💡
#neurocounseling #TherapistsConnect #psychotherapy
j9austin.bsky.social Jehannine (J9) Austin @j9austin.bsky.social · Jan 14
Ok I’m coffee’d up & ready to go!

First, thanks @nicolecrust.bsky.social for organizing Fear and Anxiety week here on @bsky.app (… feels … timely?? 😬🫨) and @samcooper.bsky.social for yesterday!

As Nicole said, I’m a professor, psychiatric genetic counselor, AND a I live with anxiety/depression. 🧵
nicolecrust.bsky.social Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · Jan 14

It's Day 3 of Fear and Anxiety week here on Bsky (Day 2, ⤵️).

Today we'll hear from @j9austin.bsky.social, a psychiatric genetic counselor, prof, and individual with lived experience.

Dr. Austin uses a powerful "Jam Jar" metaphor to explain the susceptibly of us all to mental health conditions.
January 14, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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🧠🩷⚡️ Title flamboyant but a balanced take on the #vagus #nerve stimulation potential for #mentalhealth ( #depression ), #inflammation
⚡️1) Electrical stimulation of the vagus (not manual/dancing/singing)
⚡️2) Placebo effect
#psychotherapy #TherapistsConnect
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
The Vagus Nerve’s Mysterious Role in Mental Health Untangled
The healing potential of the brain’s most interconnected nerve intrigues researchers
www.scientificamerican.com
January 12, 2025 at 9:45 AM