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« Previous EntriesThis weekend June 25th & 26th in Salt Lake City Utah
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011 I wanted to keep you all up to date as to how I am spending my free time these days.
I am waist deep in the creative writing community, a very active support group, and I’ll be reading a short selection from the novel I am writing along with 9 other […]
Dissociative Phenomena
Thursday, June 9th, 2011We all feel at odds with ourselves at times, but normally conflicting feelings are contained within an overall sense of a unified self. During normal child development, various dissociative phenomena occur temporarily. These involve projection of parts of the self or of the inner images of need fulfilling persons onto fantasy […]
Effects of Abuse and Neglect in the Relational Dimension
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011If we have been deprived of love in childhood, no person in later life
can ever really make it up to us. Our adult self must learn to take responsibility
for feelings of loss, grief, anger and inadequacy without depending
on finding a new and more perfect surrogate for a depriving or abusive parent.
That strategy […]
Impact of Abuse in the Psychological Dimension
Tuesday, December 21st, 2010One would think that physical or sexual abuse from an otherwise attentive and loving caretaker would be less traumatic for a child than from a stranger. Sometimes this is the case, but more often the confusion and emotional abandonment that happen when children are abused by a caretaker, especially a parent, […]
Impact of Abuse in the Psychological Dimension
Thursday, December 16th, 2010Verbal and emotional abuse of children can reach psychotic proportions, as when deranged abusers vilify children while they are abusing them, accusing their victims of being whores and demons. Already overwhelmed by the intense physical and emotional trauma of the abuse experience, children have no refuge from or defense against […]
Overstimulation
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010The habitually abused child ultimately shuts down body awareness altogether.Thought and emotion are experienced without reference to body sensation, which has been cast into the shadows outside of the field of consciousnessto avoid pain. The full impact of the trauma is now carried in the form of constant body tension […]
PTSD
Thursday, November 4th, 2010Recent research suggests that stress hormones released during traumatic episodes intensify vividness and retention of memories of the episodes and thereby prolong automatic arousal. If autonomic overactivity becomes chronic, survival mechanisms are reset to a higher level of sensitivity that is designed to detect the danger at the earliest possible moment and escape. When there […]
As Sheila’s Rage Releases, Fear of Loss Comes Next
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010Then Sheila said she felt sick all over: “I’m sick of what I gave up for you. I’m sick of your whining and headaches and excuses. I performed for you, so you wouldn’t feel like a failure. I’m sick of your weakness! I don’t have to be a nurse if I don’t want to be, […]
Memory
Monday, November 2nd, 2009We identify with our body and our family’s limited pattern of responses to life recorded by ordinary memory in the brain. – karmashrink.com
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Quantum Memory
Friday, October 30th, 2009Taking human form we lose touch with the timeless
quantum memory that contains myriad possibilities.
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