This episode is to help you to understand the Neuroscience of Attachment Styles, Ego and Shadow.

It includes:

• ​The Critical Window of Infant Bonding
• ​The Ego and Default Mode Network
• ​Attachment Styles as Computational Adaptations
• ​Calibrating the Reality Filter (The REBUS Model)
• ​The Neuro-Attachment Origin of the Shadow
• ​How the Attachment Styles Map onto the Shadow
• ​The DMN and the Shadow: A Neuro-Filter Breakdown
• ​The Magnetism of Chaos: The Anxious-Avoidant Trap
• ​Environmental Disruptions and Parental Divorce
• ​The Triple Network Switchboard and the Subcortical Hardware
• ​Rewiring Our Brain

If you want to dive deeper into the neuroscience from today's episode, here are the links to the primary research papers:

1. ​The Ego Network Integration: Evidence on the Emergence of the Brain's Default Network (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences / PNAS)
2. ​Adult Attachment Neuroimaging: Neuroscience of Adult Attachment Style (PubMed Central / PMC)
3. ​Stress and Brain Pathways: Disentangle the Neural Correlates of Attachment Style in Healthy Individuals(PubMed Central / PMC)
4. ​The Anxious-Avoidant Pairing Patterns: Adult Attachment and Patterns of Partner Choice (Journal of Social and Personal Relationships) https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8336265/
5. ​Trauma and Disorganisation: Neurobiology of Disorganized Attachment: A Review of Primary Mechanisms (PubMed Central / PMC)
6. ​The Biology of Neural Integration: The Neuroscience of Shadow Integration (A review mapping how higher cognitive prefrontal centres and subcortical limbic regions communicate during shadow work).

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