Can You Reshape Your Brain's Response To Pain? NPR article, June 10, 2019

Sadly ACEs are currently very trendy and getting everywhere.

 

What is an ACE?

 

At least Freud was doing a ton of cocaine. What's their excuse for being this delusional?

 

Adverse childhood experience, or something like that. Basically anything traumatic during childhood, or actually if you had a childhood at all, since they never accept no for an answer and just waive it off as probably so traumatic you don't even remember it and now that will run off the clock on years of therapy.

James Coyne is doing a lot of debunking on this because things are clearly headed towards the same garbage research as we have been subjected to. Every study is significant, nothing is ever disproved and more research is always needed to produce an ever-growing pile of reversal-of-causality and correlation-as-causation without a single bit of reproducible objective evidence.

 

What is this "you", which lies outside the brain, and which seeks to reshape the brain's responses?

 

Adverse childhood experience.
Coyne has blogged a good critique

ETA @rvallee already explained.
What was an educational theory has morphed into a predictive tool

 

The act of being born is so traumatic that we never recover from it.