Another «mainstream» technique that was used was John Gottman's use of
writing about trauma.
At a recent workshop, award - winning author Jessica Handler (Invisible Sistersand Braving the Fire) offered pointers for other authors
writing about trauma through sharing her own powerful story of grief and loss.
Trauma - based nonfiction is popular in this current moment, but what personal and professional costs are associated with
writing about trauma?
Writing about trauma is sometimes called «navel - gazing,» particularly for women writers.
Much has been
written about trauma and neglect and the damage they do to the developing brain.
Not exact matches
I'm a Developmental Clinic /
Trauma Neurosurgery nurse obsessed with making, eating, and
writing about good food.
Some days, after
writing about bullying and
trauma, I marvel that most of us make it to adulthood as well as we do.
Recently, they
wrote about how birth
trauma is on the rise:
These are the kinds of stories that cause women to look back, forward and all around — for surely other women like us have experienced, or will experience, some of the same
traumas and dramas Schappell
writes about.
This is an excellent book
about birth
trauma and it opens one's eyes to the medical field and how some doctors, nurses, midwifes really do not care... The imagery is incredible the poem is well
written — more so because it is from your heart and your pain.
For example psychiatrist Bruce Perry, who runs the Child
Trauma Academy has
written extensively for audiences of parents, teachers and other professionals
about how early developmental disruptions affect the developing brain, how this manifests in the classroom, and how to effectively address these problems in multiple settings, His Scholastic series is one example.
Last year, The MMQB
wrote about the problem in our series on head
trauma in football.
Much has been
written about the Holocaust and intergenerational transmission of
trauma.
WET involves five
trauma - focused sessions in which individuals are asked to
write about their traumatic experiences followed by scripted instruction, while CPT is a 12 - session program in which patients are taught to recognize and challenge dysfunctional cognitions
about their traumatic event and current thoughts
about themselves, others and the world around them.
In our recent book, Supersurvivors: The Surprising Link Between Suffering and Success, we
write about people who have dramatically changed their lives in the aftermath of
trauma.
Mugerwa and Holden studied how
writing about your worries, concerns,
traumas, etc. can be beneficial.
Meredith Kolodner
writes about high schools which are successfully decreasing suspensions and expulsions through
trauma sensitive practices that address the reasons for a student's behavior in her article, «How Schools Can Lower Suspension Rates and Raise Graduation Rates».
Because it's a cathartic exercise for you to
write about past
trauma?
Trauma - based nonfiction is popular in this current moment, but what personal and professional costs are associated with
writing about... more
This is
about the very nature of the human brain and how mental states and
trauma impact our ability to read and
write, causing crippling writer's block or the inability to step away from the pen or keyboard.
The first story, «Weights and Measures» describes the
trauma of dealing with the loss of a child, The second is a letter that Picoult
wrote to her son when he left for college and the last, «Ritz» is
about a mother's much needed vacation.
Noah's
writing projects include «Setting Sail: The Aesthetics of Politics on the Gaza Flotilla» for Art Papers, as well as interviews with Khaled Hourani, Omer Fast, Jill Magid, Walead Beshty, and Nicholas Schaffhausen; «Trouble in Paradise: The Erasure of Memory at Canada Park» for Pidgin Magazine; «The Art of Forgetfulness, the
Trauma of Memory: Yael Bartana and Artur Zmijewski» for Transmission Annual, and a feature
about the work of Dor Guez for ARTPULSE magazine.
Gottman (1999) suggests that a traumatized partner
write about his or her experience of
trauma, how it has affected them, how they have coped, etc..
One is Victor Frankl's book The Will to Meaning, which is
written a little bit for a clinician since it has a little bit of theory in it, but it really is talking
about how do we go on with our lives when we've suffered terrible
trauma.
At her much - read blog and in other publications, she has
written that there were so many lost opportunities for mental health clinicians to ask
about her childhood
trauma and offer counseling services and peer support that could have helped.
Natalie Levkovich, CEO of the Health Federation of Philadelphia and one of the founding members of the Multiplying Connections Steering Committee has
written a new blog
about the importance of self - care for professionals working with clients who experience
trauma and adversity.
Henry Gornbein, a family lawyer in Michigan,
wrote a recent article
about the
trauma of divorce for the Huffington Post.
Hilary
writes a blog called The Change Triangle where she
writes about AEDP, emotions,
trauma recovery and tips on daily living.
It involves semistructured protocols, downloadable treatment tools (e.g., The Trigger Grid,
Written Homework
About My
Trauma), and interventions that are customized to the specific issues, social context, and capacities of each client.
However, unlike other forms of empirically supported
trauma treatments, it is not necessary for the person in therapy to speak or
write about the memory in detail or do homework in order to achieve positive effects.
Mirel Goldstein MS, MA, LPC is a New Jersey marriage therapist who has been successfully treating couples and
writing / lecturing
about marriage for the past 15 years.She specializes in the treatment of anxiety,
trauma, and relationship issues.
Clarification involves parent
writing an abuse clarification letter and child developing a
trauma narrative
about the abuse experienced
And along this path she found her own passions too, educating others
about trauma and attachment and
writing about adoption and special needs parenting.
She created and
wrote about the Rapid Advance Process in her doctoral dissertation and with Vicki Carpel Miller, LMFT, further developed the process for treatment of Vicarious
Trauma.
Although numerous books have been
written about childhood incest and
trauma, until now none of them has combined the best of what scientific psychology has to offer with detailed representation and narrative
about the ways that childhood sexual
trauma within the family context affects the lives of adult survivors.
Some of the feelings you
wrote about can be associated to any child that has gone through
trauma in general.