Wat is EMDR? – EMDR Welke voorbereidingen zijn nodig? EMDR werkt vaak snel. Daarnaast kan het ook een intensieve therapie zijn. Hoe gaat EMDR in zijn werk? De therapeut zal vragen aan de gebeurtenis terug te denken, inclusief de bijbehorende beelden, gedachten en gevoelens. Wat zijn de te verwachten effecten? De sets zullen er langzamerhand toe leiden dat de herinnering haar kracht en emotionele lading verliest. Hoe werkt EMDR? Een verklaring voor de werkzaamheid van EMDR is dat het terugdenken aan een nare herinnering in combinatie met het maken van oogbewegingen ervoor zorgt dat het natuurlijk verwerkingssysteem wordt gestimuleerd.
Int. Soc. for Traumatic Stress (ISTSS) NATIONAL CENTER for PTSD Home The lifelong cost of burying our traumatic experiences By Shaoni Bhattacharya Past trauma can mean not feeling fully alive in the present (Image: Stanley Greene/Noor/eyevine) The trauma caused by childhood neglect, sexual or domestic abuse and war wreaks havoc in our bodies, says Bessel van der Kolk in The Body Keeps the Score WHAT has killed more Americans since 2001 than the Afghanistan and Iraq wars? And which serious health issue is twice as likely to affect US women as breast cancer? The answer, claims psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk, lies in what we now understand about trauma and its effects. Take his two examples. Van der Kolk draws on 30 years of experience to argue powerfully that trauma is one of the West’s most urgent public health issues. And it is not only extreme experiences that linger. “Childhood neglect can prime individuals to be on high alert, their bodies tuned to fight or flight” He makes it clear why it’s so important: help parents with their problems, deprivation or social isolation, and you help their kids.
Journal of Traumatic Stress (JTS) Earn Continuing Education credits online 3 CEs per issue of the Journal of Traumatic Stress. Click here for details. The JTS impact factor is 2.55. JTS is ranked 23 of out 114 for Psychology, clinical and 37 out of 121 for Psychiatry. The Journal of Traumatic Stress, the official publication for the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, is an interdisciplinary forum for the publication of peer-reviewed original papers on biopsychosocial aspects of trauma. The Journal of Traumatic Stress serves as a primary reference for professionals who study and treat a broad diversity of people exposed to highly stressful and traumatic events (directly or through their occupational roles), such as war, disaster, accident, violence or abuse (criminal or familial), hostage-taking, or life-threatening illness across all nations and populations. The journal publishes original articles, brief reports, review papers, commentaries, and, from time to time, special issues devoted to a single topic.
ATSS It Didn’t Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are By Mark Wolynn Guest writer for Wake Up World A well-documented feature of trauma, one familiar to many, is our inability to articulate what happens to us. We not only lose our words, but something happens with our memory as well. During a traumatic incident, our thought processes become scattered and disorganized in such a way that we no longer recognize the memories as belonging to the original event. Instead, fragments of memory, dispersed as images, body sensations, and words, are stored in our unconscious and can become activated later by anything even remotely reminiscent of the original experience. Sigmund Freud identified this pattern more than one hundred years ago. Freud’s contemporary Carl Jung also believed that what remains unconscious does not dissolve, but rather resurfaces in our lives as fate or fortune. Recent advances in imaging technology have allowed researchers to unravel the brain and bodily functions that “misfire” or break down during overwhelming episodes.
Virginia Johnson obituary In 1957 William Masters, a gynaecologist at the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, engaged Virginia Johnson to assist him in the research into human sexuality he had begun a few years earlier. They were to work together for more than three decades, publishing a range of landmark books and transforming attitudes to sex and sexuality. Before Masters and Johnson did their research, sex was often shrouded in mystery and misconceptions, with discussion hampered by embarrassment and taboo. Johnson, who has died aged 88, is often described as a sexologist or psychologist. She was born in Springfield, Missouri, daughter of Edna and Harry Eshelman. By her early 20s, she had married and divorced twice, and moved to St Louis. Masters had secured funding and permission to study human sexuality and had been observing prostitutes in local brothels – hardly representative of the average, as one of the workers apparently pointed out.
Trauma Information Pages * Comprehensive Resources on Traumatic-Stress, PTSD & Dissociation The Biggest Cause of Anxiety and Depression is Traumatic Life Events By Dr. Joseph Mercola Guest writer for Wake Up World It’s estimated that 1 in 10 U.S. adults struggle with depression [1] and another 40 million have anxiety. There’s no doubt that both of these mental health conditions are at epidemic proportions, but the unanswered question remains why? Traumatic Life Events at the Root of Many Cases of Anxiety and Depression A recent study set out to determine what role familial risk, social circumstances and life events have on mental health, using surveys completed by nearly 33,000 people as their key form of data.[3] They revealed that the single biggest determinant of chronic anxiety and depression was traumatic life events, followed by to a lesser extent, family history of mental illness, income and education levels, relationship status and other social factors. This is key, as it means that you are not powerless against depression and anxiety. For more on this, please see: Overcoming Negative Thinking – The #1 Cause of Chronic Depression.