The World of Trauma – on Circle of Insight Podcast
A vibrant exchange about the creation of emotional trauma, and the fear-laden and shame-filled inner world which form around it.
Being Human Podcast
Discussion of how to define trauma, the trade-offs that come into play in the wake of traumatising events (and their roots in evolution), the difference between healing and curing trauma.
Understanding and Healing Emotional Trauma
Introducing trauma-worlds and how they effect our daily lives.
Cause or effect? How best to define trauma
It can be more helpful to the healing process if we define trauma by the impact of harmful experiences on us, rather than by the experiences themselves.
Trauma-worlds: Life in a reality shaped by fearfulness, disconnection and shame
Trauma-worlds as the altered reality that we begin to inhabit in the wake of unaddressed childhood wounds.
Unlocking the secrets of the Wounded Psyche – An interview with Donald Kalsched
The survival system a child develops to protect him or herself from psychological wounding can cause more damage than the original wound.
Neurobiology in the Consulting Room – An interview with Margaret Wilkinson
Therapeutic practice can be enriched by incorporating the latest scientific research on attachment dynamics, trauma, and the neurobiology of emotion.
Attachment: A modern evolutionary perspective and its relevance to psychotherapy
Recent evolutionary thinking has much to contribute to attachment theory and to the understanding of childhood relational trauma.
How evolution can help us understand child development and behaviour
Modern evolutionary thinking challenges the ideas that secure attachment is ‘normal’ and insecrue attachment is ‘abnormal’.