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WHY ARE WE TALKING ABOUT TRAUMA?

 

Why are we talking about trauma? Is that the right word?

First, let’s acknowledge that the word “trauma” is often overused. During our STAR trainings we mostly use the word “harm,” and it’s also important to name why we will be referencing the “t” word.

Many traumagenic systems, situations and events are routinely minimized, though they generate frustration, pain and profound bodily impacts in everyday life – and affect different bodies in different ways. Below we name a few of these traumagenic – or potentially traumatic – systems, situations or events.

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A medical anthropologist at Harvard, Anne Harrington, has written (the latest, there have been other books on this topic) history of psychiatry: "MIND FIXERS: Psychiatry's Troubled Search For The Biology of Mental Illness ". Her take on this topic focuses on the role of pharmaceuticals and the American Psychiatric Association in perpetuating the idea that all disease should be fixed rather than prevented. An article in the April issue of The Atlantic, "Psychiatry's Incurable Hubris" - has a good review of this book...I recommend it. The -movement to understand the role of TRAUMA in health is a head-on collision with this hubris - this belief that all mental health issues are biologically based. Over time, the role of the environment, especially during childhood, will find its rightful place in the "great regression equation in the sky" that will explain, once and for all, why some people get sick and some do not. Keep up the fight and NEVER stop talking about trauma, at least until the concept is so ingrained in all science (and therefore, policy) there is no need to talk about it any further. rr Nov. 4, 2019

 

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