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Dostoevsky: A Psychologist We Can All Learn From

Mad in America

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.

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Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

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Childhood Trauma : Adverse childhood experiences include physical and emotional abuse, physical and emotional neglect, and family trauma (such as a parent in prison, or witnessing a parent physically abused by the other parent). for those on parole or a supervised release from prison in the past 12 months, and 9.2%

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The Roots of Anxiety: Inner Child vs. Conscious Self

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When you can begin differentiating a ‘lower self’ (inner child) idea from a conscious more updated idea, you will be well on your way to healing the roots of anxiety. Are your anxious thoughts and feelings stemming from past conditioning or from your present-day awareness? Notice the sensations in your body.

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Who Do We Leave Behind When We Ignore the Body? Why Critical Neuroscientists and Mad Activists Must Work Together

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This is a crucial time of transition for psychiatry, and current developments are occurring beneath the public’s awareness. A functional psychiatrist may consider one patient’s depression to be the compounding result of childhood trauma and hypothyroidism, and another’s to be the result of metabolic issues, autoimmunity, and food allergies.

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2017: My Descent Into Mayhem

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I was driven by a huge sense of social injustice and an absolute certain conviction that i t was my moral duty to bring light to societal wrongs, and, in particular, wrongs being done to children, past, present and future. It might have been the re-activation of deeply rooted childhood trauma brought on by situations in my workplace.

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Instead Of Looking For Root Causes Of Your Anxiety, Do This.

The Anxiety Guy

” This is a topic that resonates with many of our listeners who struggle with understanding whether they need to delve into their past to heal their present. ’ A simple and yet powerful approach to uncovering the causes of present anxiety. Let’s Dive in!

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Embracing the Shadow—Charlie Morley on Lucid Dreaming as Therapy

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A lucid dream is any dream where you’re actively aware of the fact that you’re dreaming as the dream is happening. So the elevator pitch is that anything you can treat through hypnotherapy, you can also treat through lucid dreaming whether it’s working with confidence, working with PTSD or childhood trauma.