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S1.03 The emerging concept that trauma is transdiagnostic

March 23, 2023 • Kate Brassington • Season 1 • Episode 2

Welcome to this episode where I look at the emerging idea that trauma is not an illness or a broken-ness, but is in fact "transdiagnostic"... it goes outside, and across specific diagnoses and pathologies. When we see it in this way, we get some insights and freedoms open up.

03:05 Polyvagal Theory - How this amazing nerve, the longest in our body, keeps us safe through fight, flight and freeze response when it senses danger, and how trauma is a body, not a mind response

08:10 Our "modern" social engagement system in the brain and how this shows up in our modern world

11:37 What do we mean by transdiagnostic - cutting across multiple domains rather than single diagnostic criteria

12:19 Early psychiatrists working with soldiers from the World War 1 battlefields, began to consider that people were having a normal reaction to an abnormal event

13:30 The stigma of mental illness

16:19 My experience of release following Havening Techniques.

18:49 Why I think there's a lot of hope now as there are so many ways you can explore what works for you

Essay "Trauma Needs a Rebrand - Trauma, Psychedelics, Limitations of Our Existing Models, and Exciting Alternatives" by Liam Farquhar https://psychedelicpress.substack.com/p/trauma

Bessel van der Kolk - the Body Keeps the Score https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJfmfkDQb14

Peter Levine - Trauma is not an illness, but an injury or wound https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31z0veuNe9c

Polyvagal Theory explained. Somatic Consent Engagement System and Social Engagement System. Matthias Schwenteck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27FSiBqEDUs

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