Psychiatry Must Stop Ignoring Trauma, says Dr. Bessel van der Kolk
Yes, please, and thank you for saying so!
Of course psychiatry must not just stop ignoring trauma, it must stop retraumatizing the already traumatized. It’s clients. The very vulnerable people who seek help and end up being harmed further. Not only are hospitals and a lot of standard treatment horribly abusive the medications have been found to be further agents of trauma.
It’s also true that coercion, subtle or otherwise, is the rule in psychiatric care and that the United Nations has also declared forced treatment to be a form of torture.
We can heal and we do given the right sort of supports. The mainstream mental illness system isn’t providing them.
Below is a brilliant and brief video that is a great thing to share with those who still need to understand these issues.
From the Big Think youtube channel:
Acclaimed psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk explores his field’s long, complex, and stubborn history with trauma. Dr. van der Kolk explains how psychiatry as a whole avoided progress, often misdiagnosing trauma as hysteria or, in the case of shell-shocked soldiers, malingering. The experiences of abused women and children were more or less ignored for a century. They’re still being ignored in ways, he says. Psychiatry is still too focused on abstract diagnoses and not cognizant enough of the traumatic experiences that lead to them. His latest book “The Body Keeps the Score” was written to draw attention to how traumatic disorders can be avoided.
More posts that feature Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, HERE
More on Trauma and PTSD
See also: Professional denial is a form of retraumatization and the mental health professionals who perpetrate against us
Don’t forget to check out his very important new book The Body Keeps the Score
See: Psychiatric drug withdrawal and protracted withdrawal syndrome round-up
For a multitude of ideas about how to create a life filled with safe alternatives to psychiatric drugs visit the drop-down menus at the top of this page.
Psychiatry Must Stop Ignoring Trauma, says Dr. Bessel van der Kolk
Yes, please, and thank you for saying so!
Of course psychiatry must not just stop ignoring trauma, it must stop retraumatizing the already traumatized. It’s clients. The very vulnerable people who seek help and end up being harmed further. Not only are hospitals and a lot of standard treatment horribly abusive the medications have been found to be further agents of trauma.
It’s also true that coercion, subtle or otherwise, is the rule in psychiatric care and that the United Nations has also declared forced treatment to be a form of torture.
We can heal and we do given the right sort of supports. The mainstream mental illness system isn’t providing them.
Below is a brilliant and brief video that is a great thing to share with those who still need to understand these issues.
From the Big Think youtube channel:
Acclaimed psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk explores his field’s long, complex, and stubborn history with trauma. Dr. van der Kolk explains how psychiatry as a whole avoided progress, often misdiagnosing trauma as hysteria or, in the case of shell-shocked soldiers, malingering. The experiences of abused women and children were more or less ignored for a century. They’re still being ignored in ways, he says. Psychiatry is still too focused on abstract diagnoses and not cognizant enough of the traumatic experiences that lead to them. His latest book “The Body Keeps the Score” was written to draw attention to how traumatic disorders can be avoided.
More posts that feature Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, HERE
More on Trauma and PTSD
See also: Professional denial is a form of retraumatization and the mental health professionals who perpetrate against us
Don’t forget to check out his very important new book The Body Keeps the Score
See: Psychiatric drug withdrawal and protracted withdrawal syndrome round-up
For a multitude of ideas about how to create a life filled with safe alternatives to psychiatric drugs visit the drop-down menus at the top of this page.
Psychiatry Must Stop Ignoring Trauma, says Dr. Bessel van der Kolk
Yes, please, and thank you for saying so!
Of course psychiatry must not just stop ignoring trauma, it must stop retraumatizing the already traumatized. It’s clients. The very vulnerable people who seek help and end up being harmed further. Not only are hospitals and a lot of standard treatment horribly abusive the medications have been found to be further agents of trauma.
It’s also true that coercion, subtle or otherwise, is the rule in psychiatric care and that the United Nations has also declared forced treatment to be a form of torture.
We can heal and we do given the right sort of supports. The mainstream mental illness system isn’t providing them.
Below is a brilliant and brief video that is a great thing to share with those who still need to understand these issues.
From the Big Think youtube channel:
Acclaimed psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk explores his field’s long, complex, and stubborn history with trauma. Dr. van der Kolk explains how psychiatry as a whole avoided progress, often misdiagnosing trauma as hysteria or, in the case of shell-shocked soldiers, malingering. The experiences of abused women and children were more or less ignored for a century. They’re still being ignored in ways, he says. Psychiatry is still too focused on abstract diagnoses and not cognizant enough of the traumatic experiences that lead to them. His latest book “The Body Keeps the Score” was written to draw attention to how traumatic disorders can be avoided.
More posts that feature Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, HERE
More on Trauma and PTSD
See also: Professional denial is a form of retraumatization and the mental health professionals who perpetrate against us
Don’t forget to check out his very important new book The Body Keeps the Score
See: Psychiatric drug withdrawal and protracted withdrawal syndrome round-up
For a multitude of ideas about how to create a life filled with safe alternatives to psychiatric drugs visit the drop-down menus at the top of this page.
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