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A client of mine once told me that as a young child he was playing contentedly in his room one day when he noticed how… Read More »Confusion

The clearest objective example of the Freeze response in humans is the deer-caught-in-the headlights look. In it, an individual appears to be unresponsive to their… Read More »Freeze

The Flight response is, like Fight, a biologically driven action. As part of the autonomic nervous system, Flight’s job is to respond to life threatening… Read More »Flight

A man sits in his car, traffic inching along, everything slowed but steadily moving. Music playing as background to the crawl home. The pace quickens,… Read More »Fight

In the first installment of my Primer on PTSD, I laid out some of the perimeters of PTSD from a diagnostic framework along with some… Read More »PTSD: A Primer, part 2

The letters PTSD have attained an institutional place now in American culture, letters that most people have heard of through the media or from friends,… Read More »PTSD: A Primer, part 1

‘You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough’ -William Blake (from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell) Alcohol use… Read More »Your Relationship with Alcohol

Traumatic events are those experiences that are intrusive, sudden, non-normative and exceeding of an individual’s capacity to meet the defense demands of the encountered event.… Read More »Trauma and Alcohol & Drug Use

…taking a broad view of what drug and alcohol mis-use, abuse and addiction treatment includes. That may or may not include setting sobriety as the… Read More »Being a Harm Reduction Therapist Involves…

Traumatic events are those experiences that are intrusive, sudden, non-normative and exceeding of an individual’s capacity to meet the defense demands of the encountered event.… Read More »Trauma and Its Aftermath