Posts Tagged ‘ bessel van der kolk ’

PTSD Professional Perspective: Complementary Therapies for PTSD

PTSD Professional Perspective: Complementary Therapies for PTSD

Friday, March 12th, 2010

Every now and then you meet such a quality person you become keenly aware that there aren’t that many around. Teresa Bennett-Pasquale is one of those people. We met at…

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PTSD Healing Thought of the Day

PTSD Healing Thought of the Day

Friday, June 26th, 2009

According to Bessel Van der Kolk,
Despite human capacity to survive and adapt, traumatic experiences can alter people’s psycholgoical, biological and social equilibrium to such a degree that the memory…

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20th Annual Trauma Conference: Final Notes

20th Annual Trauma Conference: Final Notes

Sunday, June 7th, 2009

 
I love learning. If being a student was a profession it would have been the perfect one for me. Since I can’t be a serial degree candidate, these sort…

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20th Annual Trauma Conference: Notes from the Inside

20th Annual Trauma Conference: Notes from the Inside

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

Yesterday, a friend set me straight on my perspective about this conference. He explained to me: “Most people who get interested in the science are studying lab rats. It’s unusual for…

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PTSD Word of the Day: Alexithymia

PTSD Word of the Day: Alexithymia

Friday, June 5th, 2009

I’m in Boston at the 20th Annual Trauma Conference. I spent yesterday in a seminar with Bessel van der Kolk, Alexander McFarlane, Jim Hopper, Ruth Lanius and Rachel Yehuda on…

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