"Self"-Organization
This 2 hour continuing education course on "self"-organization with John Arden is part one of his "Therapeutic Applications of Neuroscience, Psychoneuroimmunology, and Epigenetics" course.
About This Course
How does the feeling of individuality emerge? This lesson describes how body sensations, emotion, and cognition interact to “self”-organize into the emergence of self. It discusses the emergence of subjectivity and emotion by describing the mind’s operating systems; The Salient, Executive, and Default Mode Networks. The Salience Network, sometimes called the “feeling network” or “the material me” involves the somatic sensation and the emergence of emotion.
The Executive, sometimes called the central executive or the CEO of the brain, includes working memory, being present in the moment, and complex decision making. And the Default Mode Network, sometimes called the “story brain” involves self-referential thought, fantasy, daydreaming, rumination, and often about other people and our place within our relationships. It draws up episodic memories and reflects on the past as well as projects into the future.
Course curriculum
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Introduction
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"Self"-Organization Webinar
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Before you go...
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Instructor
Senior Instructor John Arden
John Arden, Ph.D., is the author of 14 books including Mind-Brain-Gene (2019, W.W.Norton & Company). He has a background in neuropsychology and is the director of training for mental health for the Kaiser Permanente Medical Centers in Northern California. In this capacity, he oversees one of the largest mental health training programs in the world, operating in 22 different medical centers throughout Northern California. Dr. Arden also practices part-time at Kaiser Permanente in Petaluma and San Rafael, and he served for several years as the chief psychologist at Kaiser Vallejo. He has taught in colleges, professional schools and universities.
Mind-Brain-Gene
Toward Psychotherapy Integration
If you would like more resources on this topic, please consider reading Dr. John Arden's book Mind-Brain-Gene.
This book contributes to the sea change in how we conceptualise mental health problems and their solutions. Mind-Brain-Gene describes the feedback loops between the multiple systems contributing to the emergence of the mind and the experience of the self. It explains how our mental operating networks "self"-organise, drawing from and modifying our memory systems to establish and maintain mental health.
