Category: Facing trauma
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REVOLUTION IN UNDERSTANDING MIND AND BRAIN
Part 2 However, in the early 1950s a group of French scientists had discovered a new compound, chlorproma-zine (sold under the brand name Thorazine), that could “tranquilize” patientsand make them less agitated and delusional. That inspired hope that drugscould be developed to treat serious mental problems such as depression,panic, anxiety, and mania, as well as…
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CHAPTER 2
REVOLUTION IN UNDERSTANDING MIND AND BRAIN The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening; the smaller thedoubt, the smaller the awakening. No doubt, no awakening.-C.-C. Chang, The Practice of ZenYou live through that little piece of time that is yours, but that pieceof time is not only your own life, it is the summing-up of…
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A New Understanding
A NEW UNDERSTANDINGIn the three decades since I met Tom, we have learned an enormous amountnot only about the impact and manifestations of trauma but also about waysto help traumatized people find their way back. Since the early 1990s brain-imaging tools have started to show us what actually happens inside the brainsof traumatized people. This…
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The Diagnostic post trauma Stress0
DIAGNOSING POSTTRAUMATIC STRESSIn those early days at the VA, we labeled our veterans with all sorts ofdiagnoses–alcoholism, substance abuse, depression, mood disorder, evenschizophrenia–and we tried every treatment in our textbooks. But for allour efforts it became clear that we were actually accomplishing very little.The powerful drugs we prescribed often left the men in such a…
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Trauma Therapy
THE REORGANIZATION OF PERCEPTIONAnother study I conducted at the VA started out as research about night-mares but ended up exploring how trauma changes people’s perceptions andimagination. Bill, a former medic who had seen heavy action in Vietnam adecade earlier, was the first person enrolled in my nightmare study. After hisdischarge he had enrolled in a…
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FACING TRAUMA
Maybe the worst of Tor’s symptoms was that he fell emotionally numb fedesperately wanted to love his family but he just couldnt evoke any degFeelings for them. He felt emotionally distant from everybody, as thought,heart were frozen and he were living behind a glass wall. That numbesextended to himself as well. He could not really…
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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…
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