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Ana Kozomara-Lund

@ananeurogeek.bsky.social

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Psychotherapist. Neuro-Geek. Interested in all things integration neuroscience psychotherapy. ❤️🧠www.neuroscienceandpsychotherapy.com/feed Not much on here - find me on Substack @neuroscienceandpsy neuroscienceandpsy.substack.com

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Ana Kozomara-Lund @ananeurogeek.bsky.social · Aug 14

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Ana Kozomara-Lund @ananeurogeek.bsky.social · May 25

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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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Ana Kozomara-Lund @ananeurogeek.bsky.social · May 21

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Ana Kozomara-Lund @ananeurogeek.bsky.social · May 19

Major #neurobollocks pervasive in psychotherapy.

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.

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#neuroskyence #DevSci #DevPsy #PsychSciSky #CogSci #brain

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Ana Kozomara-Lund @ananeurogeek.bsky.social · May 17

🌊🧠🧟‍♀️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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Ana Kozomara-Lund @ananeurogeek.bsky.social · May 17

Indeed. Add the ego of each discipline into the mix and there you have an explosive combo. When I say ego, I mean the egos of professions not yourself or Nicole. You are both demonstrating openess by engaging in an interdisciplinary discussion (no matter how prickly these might be).

Ana Kozomara-Lund @ananeurogeek.bsky.social · May 17

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Ana Kozomara-Lund @ananeurogeek.bsky.social · May 17

I see truth in both views. These conversations are hard, but locking horns in that way is very important to get the two fields to understand each other’ needs better. Thank you both for putting yourselves out there (even if it is hard) 🙏❤️🧠

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Ana Kozomara-Lund @ananeurogeek.bsky.social · May 12

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Ana Kozomara-Lund @ananeurogeek.bsky.social · May 3

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Ana Kozomara-Lund @ananeurogeek.bsky.social · May 1

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Ana Kozomara-Lund @ananeurogeek.bsky.social · Apr 26

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Ana Kozomara-Lund @ananeurogeek.bsky.social · Apr 26

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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Pascal Vrticka @pvrticka.bsky.social · Apr 26

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

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Ana Kozomara-Lund @ananeurogeek.bsky.social · Apr 24

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Pascal Vrticka @pvrticka.bsky.social · Apr 21

#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

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Ana Kozomara-Lund @ananeurogeek.bsky.social · Apr 21

You’ve gotta love little #attachment #neurobollocks

Ana Kozomara-Lund @ananeurogeek.bsky.social · Apr 20

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Ana Kozomara-Lund @ananeurogeek.bsky.social · Apr 17

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Ana Kozomara-Lund @ananeurogeek.bsky.social · Apr 14

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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Ana Kozomara-Lund @ananeurogeek.bsky.social · Apr 11

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Ana Kozomara-Lund @ananeurogeek.bsky.social · Apr 4

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Ana Kozomara-Lund @ananeurogeek.bsky.social · Apr 2

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Ana Kozomara-Lund @ananeurogeek.bsky.social · Apr 1

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Ana Kozomara-Lund @ananeurogeek.bsky.social · Mar 30

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.