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Primacy of the Affect System: A Support for The Meadows’ Model

By John Bradshaw, MA Almost a half-century ago, research psychologist Sylvan Tompkins (referred to by some as ‘the American Einstein’) wrote: “I see affect or feeling as the primary innate biological motivating mechanism, more urgent than drive, deprivation, and pleasure and more urgent than physical pain. Without its amplification, nothing… Read More

Denial is Not a River in Egypt

By Robert Fulton, MA, LISAC Note: This article was originally published in the Summer 2004 edition of Cutting Edge, the online newsletter of The Meadows. One of the wittiest adages we hear in 12-Step recovery is, “Denial is not a river in Egypt.” It is so witty, in… Read More