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Antonieta Contreras
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Daniel Siegel, Bessel van der Kolk, Joseph LeDoux, Antonio Damasio
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"Traumatization and Its Aftermath explores the complexities of trauma and serves as a practical, comprehensive guide for understanding and overcoming the effects of adverse experiences.
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“The most damaging wounds are often the ones we’re told don’t count.”
― How Deep Is the Wound?: A Guide to Investigating, Understanding, and Resolving Your Emotional Pain
― How Deep Is the Wound?: A Guide to Investigating, Understanding, and Resolving Your Emotional Pain
“Pain yells when we stop hearing what it’s trying to say.”
― How Deep Is the Wound?: A Guide to Investigating, Understanding, and Resolving Your Emotional Pain
― How Deep Is the Wound?: A Guide to Investigating, Understanding, and Resolving Your Emotional Pain
“The pain that we cannot control may be the one that could teach us the strength we never knew we had.”
― How Deep Is the Wound?: A Guide to Investigating, Understanding, and Resolving Your Emotional Pain
― How Deep Is the Wound?: A Guide to Investigating, Understanding, and Resolving Your Emotional Pain
“Trauma can be defined in terms of the relationship you establish with an event.
Becoming traumatized depends on how your system responds to the way you perceive, interpret, and interact with the events you experience as overwhelming/shocking/threatening.
Trauma is not the event itself!”
― Traumatization and Its Aftermath
Becoming traumatized depends on how your system responds to the way you perceive, interpret, and interact with the events you experience as overwhelming/shocking/threatening.
Trauma is not the event itself!”
― Traumatization and Its Aftermath
“Trauma as causal is what puts us at risk, trauma as the effect of that experience is what makes us unwell. Trauma as phenomena is every mental occurrence in between.”
― Traumatization and Its Aftermath
― Traumatization and Its Aftermath
“Trauma is not just a term, it's a complex phenomenon with multiple components, from cause to effect.”
― Traumatization and Its Aftermath
― Traumatization and Its Aftermath
“Most definitions we talk about in psychology are speculations, theories, and propositions. Definitions come and go. Terms change meaning. Statements and theories are discredited. Popular conversations make up words and adopt them as truths. Being open to this fact is the way keep learning.”
― Traumatization and Its Aftermath
― Traumatization and Its Aftermath
“The mind and the brain are part of the system that governs our mental health and we are just starting to understand that the mind and brain are not the same.”
― Traumatization and Its Aftermath
― Traumatization and Its Aftermath
Trauma & Dissociation
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Reading the best books we can find about trauma, ... learning, understanding, sharing, growing, and healing.
Overcoming Events of The Past
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— last activity Jul 17, 2018 02:52PM
This group is for readers who have experienced any variety of pain and/or loss and are looking for those who can relate and offer information that wil ...more
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A book club for therapists/counselors.
