Tag: Trauma

“All Real Living Is Meeting”: Brent Robbins on Love, Death, and...

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Psychologist and existential thinker Brent Robbins reflects on a lifetime of work, the limits of psychiatric diagnosis, and what facing mortality has taught him about joy and human connection.

Smoke ‘Em if You Got ‘Em: Rethinking Smoking as a Trauma...

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For people with trauma-impacted brains, smoking is a tool to quiet an ever-present storm.

A Bicultural Māori/European Vision for a Truly Healing Hospital

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Our therapies need to treat the root causes of mental distressā€”especially trauma and environmentā€”and not just numb the pain.

The Trauma Craze: How the Expansion of Trauma Diagnoses Fueled Victimhood...

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Exploring the paradox of increasing trauma diagnoses in a safer world and the proliferation of trauma culture.

One Personā€™s Journey from Celebrity Medical Model Advocate to Skeptic: An...

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Rose Cartwright is a screenwriter and the author of Pure, a hugely successful memoir which was then turned into a series for Channel Four....

Healing From Transgenerational Trauma: My Mum, My Daughter, & Me

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Emotional trauma is the type of wound that, if not processed and integrated, can become a void that expands to swallow not just the traumatized person but also their children and grandchildren.

Psych Concepts Creep Into Our Everyday Experiences: An Interview with Nicholas...

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MIAā€™s Ayurdhi Dhar interviews Nicholas Haslam about how psychiatric terms get diluted and creep into everyday language, altering our experiences.

The Medicalization of Women’s Suffering: An Interview with Dana Becker

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MIAā€™s Ayurdhi Dhar interviews Dana Becker about how therapeutic culture fails to adequately address womenā€™s suffering.

ā€œTetris for Traumaā€ Viral Twitter Thread: A Master Class in Misleading...

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A TV writer claims that research shows that Tetris is ā€œliterally a trauma first aid kit.ā€ Her tweets sound scientific, but the research behind it is unconvincing.

Looking Beyond Self-Help to Understand Resilience: An Interview with Michael Ungar

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Ayurdhi Dhar interviews Michael Ungar about how complex systems make us vulnerable and how resilience emerges in context-specific ways.

A Self-Help Version of EMDR Could Make Healing from Trauma Easier

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Se-REM is a self-help version of EMDR that uses sound instead of eye movement for bilateral stimulation. My clients have reported finding it helpful for healing from trauma.

An Ode Against ā€œRecoveryā€ by Rebecca Donaldson

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An Ode Against ā€œRecoveryā€: Flourishing After Childhood Trauma by Rebecca Donaldson I remember when a therapist of mine once told me I could ā€œrecover.ā€ The...

EMDR in a Nutshell: Healing from Trauma

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Rather than medicalizing distress, EMDR provides a way of healing from trauma. EMDR isn't about trying to treat the symptoms of an illness. It's about healing from the root cause.

Bearing False Witness: Childhood Psychiatry, Trauma, and Memory

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Through journaling, I realized that my lifelong confusion surrounding my memories of traumatic events was the direct result of the psychiatric labels and drugs I swallowed alongside years of parental abuse.

Childhood Trauma Is Not a Mental Illness

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My childhood was stolen by systems focused on labeling and medicating me instead of healing the effects of abuse and neglect.

Confused, Accused, and Retraumatized

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At the hospital, what traumatized me the most was that my freedom was in the hands of a professional who was steadfast in his conviction that I was feeling things I was not.

How Many Times Must the ā€œPTSDā€ Labelā€™s Harm Be Exposed?

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A recent Wall Street Journal (WSJ) article and a recent American Psychiatric Association (APA) press release reveal the power the APA has wielded through its various DSM editions in pathologizing the effects of trauma.

Stop Saying This, Part Two: “Reframing” and More

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Myths around reframing, having to love yourself before someone else can love you, and being triggered are all addressed in this blog.

Beyond the Buzzwords: What Does Trauma-Informed Care Truly Mean?

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Rethinking Psychiatry's March meeting was a rich discussion of what "trauma-informed care" means. It is an important idea, but can be an empty buzzword. Our goal was to have a deeper, more meaningful conversation on what this term really means. A diverse group from the local community attended and we had a really interesting, thoughtful discussion.

6 Ways Trauma Might Inform Your Current Life

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The following are some ways in which trauma commonly impacts a trauma survivorā€™s life. Imagine, as you read, how different our society might be if systems of care and justice were as trauma-informed as your life might be.

“Reimagining Psychiatry:” An Interview with Peter Stastny

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Peter Stastny is a New York-based psychiatrist, documentary filmmaker, and a co-founder of the International Network toward Alternatives and Recovery (INTAR). He has been...

Decontextualized Depression and PTSD Diagnoses Fail Indigenous Communities

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A case analysis of an American Indian woman illustrates how the DSM diagnostic criteria misrepresent the lives of indigenous people.

The Complexity of the Indigenous Historical Trauma Concept

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Researchers explore how the processes of colonization may impact the well-being of indigenous populations today.

When Attempts to Localize Global Mental Health Miss the Mark

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Researchers find that efforts to integrate the Cambodian idiom baksbat (broken courage) into local mental health care may have served to pathologize adaptive responding.

Valuing Posttraumatic Growth in Psychosis

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Individuals who experience psychosis can also experience posttraumatic growth, which can be a central component of the recovery paradigm.