An introduction to the widespread impact of trauma, the misunderstandings surrounding it, and what we need to know to work with it more effectively.
An exploration of how trauma shapes our inner stories and how revising them supports self-understanding, healing, and growth.
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Ten conversations with pioneering clinicians and researchers explore how emotional trauma is created, experienced, and healed, drawing on depth psychology, neurobiology, and evolutionary thought.
Marion Woodman, Donald Kalsched, Tina Stromsted, and Bruce Lloyd offer perspectives from depth psychology. Allan Schore, Daniel Siegel, and Ellert Nijenhuis provide neurobiological insights. Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Randolph Nesse, and James Chisholm contribute evolutionary viewpoints.
An illustrated exploration of how trauma shapes our inner stories and how revising them can support self-understanding, healing, and growth. It is a written version of the presentation.
This interview introduces my concept of the “trauma-world”, explaining what it is and how it develops in response to overwhelming emotional pain and fear.
Image credit: Origianl photo © Vernessa Foelix
An exploration of how early trauma creates a “trauma-world” and of how the embodied approach to inner work, developed by Marion Woodman, Mary Hamilton, and Ann Skinner through BodySoul Rhythms®, can help us work with our trauma-worlds and move beyond them.
In this widely circulated interview, Donald Kalsched explores the inner world of trauma and the powerful psychological defences that protect the wounded psyche, but can ultimately imprison it.
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