Mental Trauma

Break free from complex PTSD and explore critical links between trauma, the brain, and the body. A carefully curated collection of scientific insights, best practices, and shared experiences, Dr. Lockhart radiates empathy and resilience. She illuminates a gentle path for trauma survivors, especially veterans and women.

In conclusion, "Healing the Hidden Wounds: Unraveling PTSD in Elementary School Children" serves as a wake-up call to the widespread impact of childhood trauma and PTSD. By taking action and working together, we can create a society that prioritizes the healing and well-being of our children. Let us step forward with compassion, understanding, and a commitment to ensuring that no child's hidden wounds go unnoticed or untreated.

According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), research shows that mental illnesses are common in the United States, affecting tens of millions of people each year. Estimates suggest that only half of people with mental illnesses receive treatment. And this refers only to the United States. There are mentally ill people suffering similarly the world over.

Le persone spesso dicono che questa pandemia COVID-19 non ha precedenti, ma ha somiglianze con altre pandemie, comprese altre malattie e altri stress e traumi. Ogni situazione di stress e trauma illumina le altre, poiché siamo all`apice di una scienza dello stress e del trauma.

El trauma siempre ha sido parte de la experiencia humana, y los eventos traumáticos —tanto físicos como emocionales— pueden trastornar todo nuestro ser y cambiarnos para siempre. Aunque sabemos más que hace diez años acerca de los efectos neurológicos y físicos a largo plazo que deja el trauma, pocos se dan cuenta de que la experiencia del trauma no tiene que condenarlos a una vida de sufrimiento y duelo.

The companion workbook to Somatic Internal Family Systems Therapy—a practical guide to the 5 pillars of embodied IFS for trauma therapists, Somatic Experiencing™ practitioners, and mental health healers.

Whether trauma slammed your life with the staggering intensity of a natural disaster, childhood abuse, or the lethal silence of cancer or COVID-19, its impact can fuel ongoing confusion, anxiety, depression, helplessness, anger, and fear. Now, you can listen to world-class narrator George W. Sarris, and discover how to move beyond trauma's emotional, physical, relational, spiritual, or mental ramifications.

Over the last decade, Kevin Dedner has been on a mission to explore this powerful and troubling question, shining an unconventional spotlight on the impact of racism on mental health. In his debut book, The Joy of the Disinherited, Dedner articulates his call for urgent change: We must knock down the invisible barriers that make it harder for Black people to get the mental health care they need and deserve.

As a follow-up to the successful Connecting Paradigms, Talking About Trauma & Change: A Connecting Paradigms' Supplement provides analogies and models to help people understand the complexity of changing behavior and healing psychological trauma. Talking About Trauma & Change presents the approaches that Matthew Bennett has used in his training and clinical work in a format that is easily integrated into individual or group conversations.

How many times have you felt like your body is sending you distress signals, but you just can't decipher the Morse code? Imagine being ensnared in a tangled maze of discomfort, anxiety, and baffling health hiccups. This guide is penned by your very biology, encrypted in sensations, urging you to embark on perhaps the most important quest you'll ever undertake: the quest for your own well-being.

This book takes a quick look at the transmission of PTSD from one generation to the next and how it happens. It provides a quick synopsis of research.

Were you caught in a narcissist’s web? A love so deep. A passion so strong. From nirvana to despair trapped in your own real-life drama. From Love Trauma to Fearless Love is a representation of the inner suffering and silent world of victims of narcissistic abuse and the steps to overcome it.

This is a guidebook on how to get the most out of your sessions, and make the progress you desire and deserve. You already know that therapy can help you address issues such as anxiety, depression, addiction, and trauma. This insightful book not only covers the basics, but offers helpful tips, reminders and anecdotes to help you delve deeper during and outside of your therapy sessions.

This audiobook offers guided prompts to help promote positive thinking and gratitude. This book will help you identify everyday stress points so you can work on effective solutions to resolve any issues. In turn, this will help to reduce stress, control emotional triggers, and help you find a healthy way to manage your mood, anxiety, depression, or PTSD.

People frequently say that the COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented. Yet from a bird’s eye point of view it has similarities with other pandemics, even other illnesses, and with other stresses and traumas. In fact, each situation of stress and trauma illuminates all the others. We are on the cusp of a science of stress and trauma. In this book we indicate how the current pandemic interweaves with that science, both benefiting and contributing to it.

Monica DiCristina suffered for years without words to describe the pain she was experiencing inside. Without knowing what was behind her anxiety, intrusive thoughts, and fears, she created other names for them: “not good enough,” “unworthy,” “messed up,” “wrong.” Through the slow process of coming to understand her own story and find the accurate names for her pain, she discovered a glorious path to healing, and also a calling to become a therapist and help others in the same way.

Just as polio loomed over the 1950s, and AIDS stalked the 1980s and ’90s, posttraumatic stress disorder haunts us in the early years of the twenty-first century. Over a decade into the United States’ “global war on terror,” PTSD afflicts as many as 30 percent of the conflict’s veterans. But the disorder’s reach extends far beyond the armed forces. In total, some twenty-seven million Americans are believed to be PTSD survivors. Yet to many of us, the disorder remains shrouded in mystery, secrecy, and shame.

Esta obra ofrece una nueva y esperanzadora visión del trauma. Nos muestra al "animal humano" como un ser único, provisto de una capacidad instintiva para sanar y también con una mente capaz de aprovechar esta capacidad innata. El Dr. Levine se pregunta y responde una cuestión muy interesante: ¿por qué los animales salvajes que suelen estar amenazados constantemente casi nunca quedan traumatizados? Comprender la dinámica que permite que un animal sea prácticamente inmune a sus síntomas, nos permitirá descubrir el misterio del trauma en los seres humanos.

Lebenskrisen kann nur überwinden, wer ihre Ursachen versteht. Verstehen führt zu Veränderung – das Unverstandene müssen wir immer wieder aufs Neue durchleben. Doch was bedeutet es zu verstehen? Die Psychologen Cécile Loetz und Jakob Müller erlauben uns einen intimen Einblick in die Gedanken und Gefühle von Menschen, die sich in Krisen in Therapie begeben und die unbewusste Dynamik hinter ihrem Schmerz, Angst, Trauma und ihrer Aggression zu durchdringen beginnen.

Up to 90% of adults in the US will experience one or more traumatic events in their lifetimes. While most who suffer a trauma naturally recover over time, for others difficulties continue, and may lead to full-blown depression, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), substance use, anxiety disorders, and other problems that interfere with healthy daily functioning. Making Meaning of Difficult Experiences is a self-guided mental health resource for people who have had potentially traumatic experiences and who wish to work through them independently, outside of a formal therapeutic setting.