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Healing from Within: Trauma Therapy for Women Who’ve Been Told They’re ‘Too Sensitive’

Lightwork

Healing from Within: Trauma Therapy for Women Who’ve Been Told They’re ‘Too Sensitive’ Have you ever been told that you’re “too sensitive”? The combination of trauma and sensitivity presents unique challenges.

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Dreaming with Purpose: How the Mind’s Hidden GPS Can Guide Us Toward Personal and Societal Healing

Mad in America

For trauma survivors, these visions often spill into waking life as flashbacks, blurring the line between sleep and waking reality. For trauma survivors, these visions often spill into waking life as flashbacks, blurring the line between sleep and waking reality. People dreamed of tidal waves, crumbling cities, and faceless threats.

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Beyond Medicalization: Psychedelic Therapy and the Promise of Community-Based Healing

Mad in America

While my experience informs my perspective, this article is not intended to promote our organization but rather to critically examine the psychedelic movement through the lens of someone deeply involved in both research and practice. And the answer I have arrived at is yes, I sincerely hope that something meaningfully different is afoot.

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TIFT #127: CBT and PDT Share the Same Infrastructure

How Psychiatry Works

Let's review: New Learning: As described by Pavlov and well known to all of us, conscious awareness and experiential practice lead gradually to adding new behavior patterns to our repertoire of available responses. Disconfirmation: The second requirement for modification of EMPs is delivery of disconfirming information.

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Mapping Identity Through Moonlight: A Narrative Therapy Reflection

Mad in America

I wasnt just making moodboards with huge layers of information. W hen a close family member compared the collaged moon boards I was using to process a difficult time in my life to that meme of the man frantically mapping red strings on the wall, I didnt laugh. I had just told them I was on the edge of autistic burnout. Family stepped back.

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How I Developed a Critical Perspective on Psychiatry

Mad in America

I can think of many examples throughout my early career where I saw many people admitted to psychiatric wards having suffered an adverse life event, recent or past trauma, only to leave with prescriptions for multiple drugs to treat their new presumed diagnoses.

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Horses 'mane' inspiration for new generation of social robots

Psychiatry News -- Science Daily

Equine-assisted interventions (EAIs) offer a powerful alternative to traditional talking therapies for patients with PTSD, trauma and autism, who struggle to express and regulate emotions through words alone. Skip to main content Your source for the latest research news Follow: Facebook X/Twitter Subscribe: RSS Feeds Newsletter New!