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Hyperarousal: Beyond Fight or Flight

February 20, 2013 By Justin Cascio 2 Comments

In a crisis, your choices are limited, but it’s not as bad as you think.

Filed Under: Emotional Intelligence, Featured Content, Health, Psych, & Addiction, The Good Life Tagged With: 9 to 5, acute stress response, adrenalin, adrenaline, amygdala, crisis, critical thinking skills, daily grind, deer in headlights, defenses, ego death, emergency, emergency response, emotional intelligence, evolutionary psychology, fight or flight, Fighting, hyperarousal, identity, karoshi, litigiousness, manhood, masculinity, mental health, overwork, problem-solving, psychology, PTSD, road rage, self defense, state of emergency, Stress, stress symptoms, submission, threats, trauma

The Function of Adrenalin in Boys’ Rites of Passage

February 15, 2013 By Nick Clements 8 Comments

The young generation can be a threat to the status quo, or an energy source that needs direction, depending on how we meet the challenge.

Filed Under: Emotional Intelligence, Featured Content, Mentoring and Volunteering, The Good Life Tagged With: acting out, adolescent boys, adrenalin, adrenaline, adulthood, anti-social behavior, body modification, capitalist culture, car accidents, Challenges, character, consumerism, danger, driving, drug use, Families, gang rape, gangs, growing up, guns, individuality, male role models, manhood, mentoring, peer pressure, piercings, quarter-life crisis, reckless behavior, Responsibility, rites of passage, role models, self-expression, selfishness, service missions, sexual violence, social justice movements, strength, Stress, success, tattoos, teenage boys, testosterone, violence, weapons, young men

Simulated Assault: My Life as a Self-Defense Instructor

November 1, 2012 By Meron Langsner, Ph D Leave a Comment

Meron Langsner plays the perpetrator in reversals of attempted assault.

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Simulated Assault: My Life as a Self-Defense Instructor

November 1, 2012 By Meron Langsner, Ph D 7 Comments

Meron Langsner plays the perpetrator in reversals of attempted assault.

Filed Under: Fear & Courage, Featured Content, On Rape and Sexual Violence, The Good Life, What's Your Fight? Tagged With: adrenaline, assault, body armor, communication, defensive training, fear, Fighting, gross motor skills, IMPACT Boston, learning to fight back, LGBT issues, LGBT self-defense, martial arts, Model Mugging, operant conditioning, people with disabilities, perpetrator, physical, physical skills, power, reversals, role playing, safety, scenarios, self defense, self-defense instructor, sexual assault, Situational Awareness, survivors of sexual assault, terror, trauma survivors, verbal de-escalation, What's Your Fight

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