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Somatics, Neurology, and the Hyperneuroplastic Experience
Hyperneuroplastic body–brain systems behave much like nonlinear dynamic systems, as described in complex systems neuroscience, where neural network dynamics organize around shifting attractor states rather than fixed points of equilibrium. Small changes can produce large effects. Patterns emerge quickly. Stability is achieved through ongoing adjustment rather than rigidity.

Dr. Patty Gently
Dec 28, 20254 min read


The Neural Architecture of Transformation: Bridging Dąbrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration and Hyperneuroplasticity
Dąbrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration anticipated what neuroscience now begins to affirm: certain nervous systems are built for transformation. Hyperneuroplasticity may provide the biological foundation for developmental potential, with the third factor as its governing mechanism and multilevelness as its structural expression.

Dr. Patty Gently
Oct 24, 20259 min read


Self-Via-Echolocation and the Ache of Existential Homesickness
Together, an understanding of self-via-echolocation and existential homesickness helps with the process of integration found through an oscillation between outward resonance and inward coherence.

Dr. Patty Gently
Oct 21, 20253 min read


Entangled Autopoiesis Meets HNP: Why “Therapy” Works as a System
the goal is to co-create conditions where the system’s own intelligence can reorganize into new forms of stability and meaning

Dr. Patty Gently
Oct 4, 20258 min read


AuDHD and Bipolar Disorder: Comorbidity and Misdiagnosis
For many years, AuDHDers may have been misidentified as having bipolar disorder, meaning that studies of bipolar populations could actually be describing this experience. This raises critical questions about how much of the literature reflects autistic and dynamically attentive lived realities rather than distinct mood disorder trajectories.

Dr. Patty Gently
Sep 27, 20258 min read


Hyperneuroplasticity Across the Lifespan
Looking across the lifespan, hyperneuroplasticity emerges as a systemic orientation that permeates every stage of development, rather than a temporary trait to be gained or lost.

Dr. Patty Gently
Sep 14, 20258 min read


Dynamic Systems, Process Metaphysics, and Hyperneuroplasticity: Stability Through Flux
Epigenetics illustrates how coherence at the cellular level is achieved through regulatory processes that are themselves mutable. Process metaphysics explains this at the level of being, while hyperneuroplasticity captures it in the lived experience of certain neurobiological profiles. Whether at the scale of molecules, neural networks, or whole organisms, stability arises by transforming with change rather than resisting it.

Dr. Patty Gently
Sep 3, 20259 min read


Hyperneuroplasticity and Epigenetics: Expression Beyond the Genome
Framing hyperneuroplasticity through epigenetics grounds this construct in biology and emphasizes both its risks and its extraordinary potential.

Dr. Patty Gently
Sep 1, 20258 min read


Sitting in the Between: Notes from a Psychological Interregnum
Between the old and the new, something deeply human takes place: the making and unmaking of meaning.

Dr. Patty Gently
Aug 4, 20256 min read


Rethinking Giftedness Through a Galvanic Frame
The word felt loaded with assumptions I never agreed to: exceptionalism, elitism, overachievement, even ease. None of these described my inner world...

Dr. Patty Gently
Jul 8, 20257 min read


The Fullness of the Half-Empty Shelf
They did not cease to matter, but that I no longer needed their mattering to hold its form, or mine.

Reuven Kotleras
Jun 30, 20253 min read


Winnicott, Early Crisis, and the Buried True Self
I actually had the option of running down the stairs and out into the street, screaming. Yet when I actually considered doing so, I decided against it because I reasoned that it seemed highly unlikely to solve any problem that I was experiencing, and indeed appeared to risk creating more problems instead.

Reuven Kotleras
Jun 29, 20258 min read


Something Borrowed
Queering was spoken like a ritual mispronounced, an invitation, not a memory of exile. It sounded smooth on tongues that had never bled for it. It was not fully understood that celebration belonged to those who had borne the bruise, not to those merely drawn to the glitter.

Dr. Patty Gently
Jun 28, 20252 min read


What’s Wrong with Therapy (And What Isn’t): A Former Therapist’s Perspective
The human soul does not reorganize itself to meet billing cycles. Sometimes “what just is" resides in liminal spaces.

Dr. Patty Gently
Jun 24, 20258 min read


Just One (White) Voice: Elevating Black History Month, 2025 and Always
We are always looking for BIPOC voices to contribute to our blog! If you are interested, please email me at brightinsightadvocate@gmail.com

Dr. Patty Gently
Feb 4, 20253 min read


The Call of Orion: A Dream Interpretation
As I surveyed the room, I realized it would need renovation—not just in the physical sense, but as a reflection of my own evolution.

Reuven Kotleras
Dec 28, 20244 min read


Navigating Growth: A Roadmap for Dąbrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration
This analogy of a vehicle, a path, an engine, and fuel offers a relatable way to understand Dąbrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintigration

Dr. Patty Gently
Dec 1, 20247 min read


Expanding Developmental Horizons: The Crucial Role of Imaginational Overexcitability
If you’ve ever felt like you experience the world much “more” than others, you are not alone, you are needed.

Dr. Patty Gently
Nov 27, 20248 min read


The Intensive Soul of Money: Learning Lessons that Add Value Beyond Bucks
growth and recovery become acts of self-care, where individuals can heal without feeling pressured to meet external expectations

Dr. Patty Gently
Oct 15, 20245 min read
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