WEBINAR: Neurofeedback and DBR: A Breakthrough in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma presented by Sebern Fisher and Frank Corrigan
Friday, April 17, 2026 at 12:00noon Eastern Time (90 minutes)
1.5 CE credits are available when attending this webinar live. (additional fee applies)
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Members: $65
Non-Members: $90
ISNR Students: $22
All psychotherapies presently used, ranging from behavior therapies such as Dialectical Behavior Therapy to perennial favorites such as Psychoanalysis, typically fail those patients with histories of severe childhood neglect and abuse. Of the two, neglect is the more serious and even neglect may not be the true issue. In a recent longitudinal study from Harvard, researcher Karlen Lyons-Ruth found, surprisingly, that abuse was not a predictor of ‘borderline personality’ and suicidality. Unsurprisingly, she and her team found that the critical factor was the ‘mother who turned away’. This is not necessarily neglect but it is absence.
Frank Corrigan and Sebern Fisher will focus on understanding and working with the profound impacts on the infant of the mother who turns away. Sebern will discuss how this infant grows up without an internalized mother and thus without the ability to regulate affect. What we call borderline personality is an inability to regulate feeling states at the neurological level and a deep and enduring sense of being unbearably alone, motherless. Neurofeedback can help this abandoned brain learn to quiet and regulate itself- it is the next best thing to having a “good-enough mother”. For some, however, neurofeedback and psychotherapy are not sufficient. Frank will describe the contribution of Deep Brain Reorienting, a therapy in which the patient learns to quiet patterns of activation deep in the brainstem in the highly attentive company of an ‘Other’ and he will share the robust research findings that support it.
No therapy works for everyone, but this workshop will explore the very real possibility that neurofeedback and DBR offered together will significantly enhance the recovery of those who have suffered histories of even the most profound parental absence and trauma.
