The Ins and Outs of 200 Years of Psychiatric Hospitals in the United States Jeffrey L. Geller Sarah Guzofski Margo Lauterbach In 1841, Dorothea Dix, then a 39-year-old former school…
Although the evidence base for the efficacy of antidepressants in PTSD appears solid, their usefulness in clinical practice is not so clear. Patients with complex PTSD and dissociative disorders do…
More amnesia was correlated with early age of onset of the abuse, chronic abuse, and severity of abuse, such as violent or sadistic abuse. Perhaps even more notable was that…
Other studies have demonstrated similarly high levels of traumatic exposure in the general population (Breslau, Davis, Andreski, & Peterson, 1991; Resnick, Kilpatrick, Dansky, Saunders, & Best, 1993). However, not all…
CAPTA was amended in 1988 (Public Law 100-294), directing the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a national data collection and analysis program that…
In contrast to the theory of repression, the model of dissociation suggests that experience can be split in more complex ways. For example, rather than seeing persons as always having…
(with apologies to John Godfrey Saxe) Six men who had great expertiseIn the human mind, Went to see some Multiples,To see if they could find What circumstances might have ledTo…
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xmlns:ops=”http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops” xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance”> 13 Managing Crisis Acute Care and Hospitalization Severely traumatized patients maintain a tenuous homeostasis between numbing and intrusion, control and dyscontrol, and interpersonal connection and alienation….
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xmlns:ops=”http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops” xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance”> 12 The Rational Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder1 Over the past three decades, professional awareness has increased dramatically concerning dissociation as a response to childhood trauma….
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xmlns:ops=”http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops” xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance”> 11 Good Fences Make Good Neighbors Maintaining the Treatment Frame The abuse of children is an inherent violation of boundaries and limits. Physical and sexual abuse…
