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• Arielle Schwartz Blog 2 Mar Clinical Reflections on the Critique on Polyvagal Theory proposed by Grossman et al., (2026)
• Arielle Schwartz Blog 16 Feb 2025 The Polyvagal Theory Workbook for Trauma
• Arielle Schwartz Korrent 2 Mar Polyvagal theory survives the 2026 "untenable" critique: what the critics contested was mechanism and evolutionary framing, not the clinical proposition. The central clinical proposition of polyvagal theory-that autonomic state functions as an organizing platform shaping perception, emotion, and relational behavior-was not empirically disproven in the critique.
• Arielle Schwartz Korrent 2 Mar Regulation must precede reflection: cognitive insight fails while a nervous system is in defensive dominance. Polyvagal theory provided me with a coherent framework for understanding why cognitive insight alone often fails when a nervous system is in defensive dominance. In such states, higher-order cortical processes are…