Category: CBT Therapy
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How to Get Out of Trauma
Most early Neuroimaging studies of traumatized people were like those weโve seen in chapter 3;they focused on how subjects reacted to specific remainders of the trauma. ..Then in 2004, my colleague Ruth lanius, who scanned Stan and Ute Lawrence brainโs, posted a new question, what Happens in the brains of trauma survivors when they are…
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DRUGS TO SAFELY ACCESS TRAUMA :-
SAFELY ACCESS TRAUMA? When I was a medical student, I spent the summer of 1966 working for Jan Bastiaans, a professor at Leiden University in the Netherlands who was known for his work treating Holocaust survivors with L.SD. He claimed to have achieved spectacular results, but when colleagues inspected his archives, they found few data…
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How to Heal From Trauma
THE BRAIN FROM BOTTOM TO TOP The most important job of the brain is to ensure our survival, even under themost miserable conditions. Everything else is secondary. In order to do that,brains need to: (1) generate internal signals that register what our bodiesneed, such as food, rest, protection, sex, and shelter; (2) create a map…
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COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY (CBT)
COGNITIVE BEHAViORAL THERAPY (CBT) During their training most psychologists are taught cognitive behavioral therapy. CET was first developed to treat phobias such as fear of spidersairplanes, or heights, to help patients compare their irrational fears withharmless realities. Patients are gradually desensitized from their irrationalfears by bringing to mind what they are most afraid of, using…
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Facing trauma
One does not have be a combat soldier or visit a refuge camp in Syria orthe Congo to encounter trauma. Trauma happens to us, our friends,our families, and our neighbors. Research by the Centers for Disease Controland Prevention has shown that one in five Americans was sexually molestedas a child; one in four was beaten…