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\"Elizabeth<\/a><\/p>\n

Dear Friends and Colleagues,<\/p>\n

The following is an excerpt from my new article, The Psychology and Neurobiology of Mediation<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0 published in the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sign in here<\/a> to review additional excerpts of the article as they are posted here.<\/p>\n

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Elizabeth Bader, The Psychology and Neurobiology of Mediation<\/a>, <\/strong><\/p>\n

Volume 17 (2) Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution (Winter 2016 Issue) <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0 I.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n

This article grew out of a moment in mediation when a party became furious with me after receiving the opening offer from the other side. As I tried to understand what was happening, I suddenly realized it was not about the offer at all. It was about him.<\/em> He feared a loss of \u201cface\u201d in front of the other parties.<\/p>\n

Treating him with utmost respect, I took him through what the admittedly complex offer actually said. After about fifteen minutes, he was fine with it. We moved on.<\/p>\n

From this point on, I began to look at mediation through the lens of \u201cface,\u201d self-esteem and self-identity. I was struck by a repeating pattern. At the outset of mediation, parties often had unrealistically optimistic hopes for resolution in their own favor, and on their own terms. This was also coupled with an attitude of \u201cI am a winner, and I can do this!\u201d<\/p>\n

Mediation was, I found, in large measure the process of helping parties, and often their attorneys, work through their initially exaggerated sense of themselves and the possibilities for settlement in order to arrive at a realistic resolution of the dispute. Some level of deflation was endemic to this process. In my publications on the psychology of mediation, I called this cycle of inflation, deflation <\/em>and realistic resolution<\/em> the IDR cycle.[1]<\/p>\n

Later, after studying the work of Stephen Porges[2] and Peter Levine,[3] I came to understand that much of what I had seen in mediation also could be described effectively in terms of the nervous system\u2019s response to threat and challenge. This link between the physiological and the psychological dimensions of mediation is explored here.<\/p>\n

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[1] See my Psychology of Mediation: Issues of Self and Identity and the IDR Cycle,<\/em> 10(2) Pepp. Disp. Res. L. J. 183 (2010) [hereinafter Psychology of Mediation<\/em>], and Self, Identity and the IDR Cycle: Understanding the Deeper Meaning of \u201cFace\u201d in Mediation, <\/em>8(4) Int\u2019l J. of Applied Psychoanal. Studies, May 2011, doi.10.1002\/aps.295 [hereinafter Deeper Meaning of \u201cFace\u201d<\/em>].<\/p>\n

[2] See<\/em> Stephen Porges, The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication and Self-Regulation(2011) (an edited collection of articles by Porges).<\/p>\n

[3] See <\/em>Peter A. Levine, In An Unspoken Voice, How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness (2010) (one of Levine\u2019s many books on trauma).<\/p>\n

For a recent article discussing the neurobiology of Levine\u2019s approach to trauma, see <\/em>Peter Payne, Mardi A. Crane and Peter Levine, Somatic Experiencing: Using Interoception and Proprioception as Core Elements of Trauma Therapy, <\/em>Front. Psychol., February 4, 2015; doi: 10.3389\/fpsyg.2015.00093, and Corrigendum: Somatic Experiencing: Using Interoception and Proprioception as Core Elements of Trauma Therapy, <\/em>Front. Psychol. doi: 10.3389\/fpsyg.2015.00423.<\/p>\n

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