Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2023

His intuitive grasp of how childhood trauma could repress and obliterate memory, fuelling the repetition compulsion of self-destructive patterns of behaviour, was central not only to psychoanalysis, but also our modern understanding of psychological trauma. Portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky by Vasily Perov, c.

Self-awareness 135

Self-awareness Biopsychosocial model Childhood trauma Sleep and mental health 135

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Because they cannot see that whiteness is also a construction, right? In some of your other interviews I’ve heard you refer to the Morlok sisters’ home as a “ pathogenic home ,” and it reminded me of Gabor Maté’s work on trauma. We white folks are racially marked, too. Natarajan: Yes.

Trauma and the brain 140

Trauma and the brain Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health Technology 140

Real Psychiatry

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

All I can remember about it today is frog dissections, the genetics of taste testing and tongue rolling, and the idea that race was a social construct that had nothing to do with biology. Thats right the social construct bomb was dropped in the middle of the Great White North in 1965 and it did not make a sound. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1620732114.

Construction 52

Construction Childhood trauma Education 52