Dissociation

Memories are the architects of our identities because of the meaning we derive from our experiences, the messages about ourselves, our lives, relationships, family, and the world. And what if your memories are painful, and traumatic? What then? Too often the meaning we make of…

There is a lot of misunderstanding and fear regarding hearing voices , having visions etc. According to the Hearing Voices Network (www.hearing-voices.org), somewhere between 3 and 10% of the people have experiences like these (increasing to about 75% if you include one off experiences like…

Dr Sandra Paulsen is known for her work with EMDR on early trauma, trauma in the first few years of life. This sort of trauma is naturally not going to be stored in a person’s brain as a narrative memory with a picture associated with…

People who were abused or grew up in toxic environments have legitimate rage. Sometimes, as children this rage came out onto others and there is guilt and shame for that. But it is important to remember that as children living in those environments, they were…

  Attachment is the very important bond between an infant and their primary caregiver(s). Anything that significantly and/or chronically disrupts or harms this relationship is considered an attachment trauma. Sometimes this is due to circumstances outside the parent’s control, such as separation due to illness…

  Any statement such as this when we are talking about such complex issues as dissociation and attachment is necessarily simplistic, and it is also largely true. According to our current understanding, the capacity to use dissociation is learned in very early childhood if children…