"If the people who you are programmed to love hurt you, the whole relationship towards them becomes extremely complex, and it becomes very hard to move away."
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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma |
"Love is also a very important part of traumatic stress and it gets very messed up in traumatic stress. You get to love people who do terrible things to you. You get to hate people who are very nice to you. You get sexually excited about things that hurt you. You get knocked out to things that are pleasurable."
"Many of these dimensions have been left out by the over simplistic stupid diagnostic system that we basically built up to firm up our relationship with the drug companies."
"We wriggled our fingers in front of peoples eyes. No one is going to take us seriously... before we had done the EMDR study and I told my 'real scientist' colleagues, that EMDR is a kickass treatment, they would say: So? Nobody's done the science. We don't know how it works, we don't know whether it works... And, I said, 'Ok, I'll do the science. So I did the science. And now I told my colleagues, 'the EMDR is a kickass treatment. My colleague said: 'I don't believe you.' So, before we did the study, it was a scientific question. Now that we've done the science, it becomes a religious question. People tend to be more lead by opinions than by facts. People are very devoted to their beliefs."
What are the benefits of EMDR therapy?"We wriggled our fingers in front of peoples eyes. No one is going to take us seriously... before we had done the EMDR study and I told my 'real scientist' colleagues, that EMDR is a kickass treatment, they would say: So? Nobody's done the science. We don't know how it works, we don't know whether it works... And, I said, 'Ok, I'll do the science. So I did the science. And now I told my colleagues, 'the EMDR is a kickass treatment. My colleague said: 'I don't believe you.' So, before we did the study, it was a scientific question. Now that we've done the science, it becomes a religious question. People tend to be more lead by opinions than by facts. People are very devoted to their beliefs."
What is neurofeedback?
MDMA assisted psychotherapy.
What is Internal Family Systems?
How trauma and resilience cross generations.
