Stephen
Porges

Dr Stephen W. Porges, PhD, known as “the father of Polyvagal Theory”, is a Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University, professor of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Maryland. He has published more than 400 peer‐reviewed scientific papers that have been cited in more than 50,000 peer-reviewed papers, and holds several patents involved in monitoring and regulating autonomic states. He created the Polyvagal Theory and a music-based intervention, the Safe and Sound Protocol. He is the author of several books, including The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, Self-Regulation (Norton, 2011), The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe (Norton, 2017), and Polyvagal Safety (Norton, 2021), as well as co-author with Seth Porges of Our Polyvagal World: How Safety and Trauma Change Us (Norton, 2023), and co-editor with Deb Dana of Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory: The Emergence of Polyvagal-Informed Therapies (Norton, 2018). Stephen Porges is co-creator with Anthony Gorry of Polyvagal Music, and a founder of the Polyvagal Institute.

https://www.stephenporges.com/  /  https://www.polyvagalinstitute.org/