Mad in America
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
I was having nightmares and flashbacks from childhood trauma that I had successfully hidden in the recesses of my mind until that time. I was just struggling… I was referred to you by my surgical team because they thought I was depressed. Interestingly I was still working full-time as an Air Force officer. False Memory Syndrome.”
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.
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Mad in America
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
In her twenties, from an affluent, predominantly white neighbourhood, she was referred to me by her family doctor. Marginalization refers to the social theory that specific groups of people, typically minority groups based on race, gender, sexuality, or socioeconomic status, are pushed to the edges of society.
Mad in America
JUNE 22, 2024
By framing childhood trauma as entertainment, the ad distracts users from their usual associations with the concept and focuses on incredibly common experiences like having low self-esteem or struggling to manage emotions.
Mad in America
APRIL 5, 2024
Such were the challenges of meeting and engaging another new voice that emerged after years of building relationships with my wife’s other dissociated parts—whom I often refer to as girls, because their ages were linked to trauma at different episodes in her childhood. How do I communicate with a mute voice?
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
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. He uses this metaphor that within biology labs when you are studying organisms and cells, they are in a petri dish, and this dish is referred to as their culture.
The Art of Healing Trauma
JUNE 20, 2020
I like this reference because it demonstrates real and concrete benefits of maintaining a daily writing practice. Chapter: the page has room for my incomprehensibility (Page 18) What I got out of this Chapter: I feel more inspired to do free-writing about childhood trauma, and to follow my intuition more.
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