The Neuro Affective Relational Model, or NARM model for short, is the brainchild of world renowned Dr. Laurence Heller and it builds on current research on resilience and self-regulation, a big topic in psychology today. NARM is principally focused with developmental trauma, and suggests that trauma occurring at different stages of our critical...
Read MoreFor children of Holocaust and Russian Gulags survivors academic research has observed symptoms which would be expected if they had actually lived through the Holocaust themselves, such as a characteristic difficulty in distinguishing between reality and fantasy. This difficulty, a by-product of the lost capacity to produce symbolic...
Read MoreAcademic research and NGOs involved in the field of abuse make it certain that abuse ranging from spanking to hitting with objects of different kinds, is still astoundingly popular among parents who try to regulate the behaviour of their children. Whatever the form, all hitting has documented negative correlates, ranging from higher risks of...
Read MoreChildren always blame themselves for environmental failures, for failing to complete secure attachment with their primary carers, even when it is completely irrational. “I deserve this” becomes the default position for children, and this stays with them at an unconscious level into adulthood. When a very young child starts off feeling profoundly...
Read MoreWhile answering the question in the title of this series promises to be an humbling experience, looking deeply at the Greek concept of the wounded Self is also going to be more enlightening than you might expect. The information here presented will also help you identify potentially traumatizing behaviour, that is, behaviours you may be enacting...
Read MoreThe ACE interview and diagnosis helps us validate the importance of Adverse Childhood Experiences. But before you take the test, let me show you how widespread, as well as hidden, this topic is to the general population by quoting the director of the A.C.E. study himself: In 1985 I first became interested in developmental life experiences in...
Read MoreWhen thinking of traumatic experiences we are often drawn to images of tragic car accidents, brutal war killings, or major natural disasters, but while these are undoubtedly traumatizing events, and induce shock traumas, trauma responses can be induced with as little as a child being lost in a supermarket. This is why, in trauma-specialist Dr....
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