J.W. (Terry) Freiberg, PhD, JD

J.W. (Terry) Freiberg is a PhD social psychologist whose perspective on the epidemic of loneliness that plagues Western societies is animated by the Relational School of psychiatry which perceives mental health as being closely related to an individual’s capacity to create and maintain rewarding interpersonal relationships. He talks about C.A.R.E.—how achieving calm, acceptance, resonance, and energy (joy) through relational experiences—calls forth the body’s calm and connection system via oxytocin and its associated neuropeptides, in contrast with the opposing scenario where stress, rejection, misunderstanding, and indifference call forth the body’s fight or flight reaction via adrenalin, cortisol, and their associated neuropeptides. He is also a student of the evolutionary development of sociality: how the initial strategy of aggregation for safety in numbers was augmented by the progressive development of reptilian protection of offspring, mammalian nursing, social-mammalian bonding, and human loving.