{"id":2660,"date":"2012-12-19T15:13:54","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T20:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccpa.scottbuckingham.ca\/blog\/?p=2660"},"modified":"2012-12-19T15:13:54","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T20:13:54","slug":"the-emerging-field-of-psychotraumatology-in-canada-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/fr\/the-emerging-field-of-psychotraumatology-in-canada-7\/","title":{"rendered":"The Emerging Field of Psychotraumatology in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Reflections of a Trauma Nurse\/Counsellor\u2019s Academic, Research &amp; Clinical Experiences: Trauma Memories<\/span><\/strong><strong> [TM]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Experts assert that traumatic memory [TM], unlike ordinary memory, may not be altered by the passage of time.\u00a0 Some argue that traumatic memory is \u2018frozen in time or timeless, inflexible, invariable, and immutable or not capable or susceptible to change\u2019 [1].<\/p>\n<p>TM\u2019s are believed to be unique memories that resist integration or are dissociated from ordinary verbal, autobiographical memory (AM).\u00a0 The theory of state-dependent memory, learning and behavior and model of ideodynamic healing [2] is devoted to understanding and treating TM.\u00a0 The lack of proper integration of intensely emotional arousing experiences noted in traumatic events into the memory system (AM), results in dissociation and the formation of TM protected by amnesic barriers.<\/p>\n<p>The consequence of dissociation of TM, especially clients with complex, posttraumatic stress and dissociative symptomology or disorders, is that the various components are also dissociated from one another (fragmented).\u00a0 These dissociated verbal memory fragments, in turn, are dissociated from affect (feelings), beliefs, and the somatosensory (body, 5 senses) dimensions of being plus one\u2019s behaviours associated with the traumatic experiences.\u00a0 Each dimension is in turn dissociated from one another or the sense of self is unaware of the other.\u00a0 In Jungian psychology this is referred to as the unconscious or shadow.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Non-verbal dimensions of TM, referred to as \u2018<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">behavioral memory of trauma\u2019<\/span> or the unconscious shadow, exerts a powerful, but implicit influence on ordinary consciousness and behavior.\u00a0 The major consequence of dissociated TM is the lack of integrated into one\u2019s conscious self- representation or self-image.\u00a0 This disintegrated sense of self is an alternate state of consciousness or personality formation commonly called alters.\u00a0 State-dependent memory, learning and behaviour [2] and ideodynamic healing addresses the creation of separate states of consciousness; the alter states and beliefs created to survive overwhelming traumatic events.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, trauma counsellors know that retrieval of TM is state and\/or context dependent.\u00a0 Trauma counsellors encourage clients engaged in traumatic stress treatment to find their voice while noting specific sensory-perceptual cues.\u00a0 These cues are triggers indicating emerging body memories capable of promoting retrieval of traumatic recollections.\u00a0 The emergence, retrieval and integration of TM remains specialized, deep, soulful, shadow-land material and work [3]. \u00a0The creative use of artistic expression\/projective assessments:\u00a0 drawing one\u2019s core sense of self and\/or poetic interludes are standard pieces of trauma work utilized during emotional overwhelm and traumatic stress treatment.\u00a0 The breakdown of trauma amnesia barriers and emergence of cues, triggers, flashbulb and\/or fragmented memories of altered states can be frightening and re-traumatizing without due care and attention.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Patience, pace and timing is absolutely essential during Crisis, Phase 1 Stabilization Treatment.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Examples of Poetic Interludes:<\/span> [4]<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Disconnected:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0 My thoughts swirl around in my head like fallen leaves in a vacant lot.\u00a0 Dizziness overtakes me in over-cast shades of grey.\u00a0 My memories overlap one another creating clouded visions.\u00a0 Particles of my yester years float in mid-space attaching themselves to the corners of my mind.<\/p>\n<p>I want to be bonded to a tranquil state of thought.\u00a0 But, I am without adhesive.\u00a0 My perceptions are refracted in ambiguity and disenchantment.\u00a0 I am a vagabond, whose ideas do not correlate within this realm.\u00a0 The urgency to be grounded escapes me.\u00a0 I am without connection.\u00a0 I am unplugged.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Poet:<\/span> contained in case file: NCS #67 and written in 1994.\u00a0 This piece comes from the heart of an abandoned infant who became an out-of-country adoption into a Caucasian family system.\u00a0 She became an estranged young adult.\u00a0 This middle-aged woman of color presented to NCS with a legacy of distain for her own skin color, suffered from addictive behaviours and contemplated suicide.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Haunted Houses:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0 I never got to be a kid.\u00a0 They never showed me how.\u00a0 Whatever I did then was wrong.\u00a0 I\u2019m paying for it now.\u00a0 I thought I kept a tiny piece of my soul I could sell.\u00a0 It turned out I was short on cash.\u00a0 I guess it\u2019s just as well.<\/p>\n<p>You get what you can pay for.\u00a0 You get what you deserve.\u00a0 I tried to replace confidence with huge amounts of nerve.\u00a0 Then one night in the dark I was on a single lane.\u00a0 I looked into my rear view mirror and there it was again.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s true that you can run, but also true that you can\u2019t hide.\u00a0 Because everything you\u2019re running from your carrying inside.\u00a0 I thought that I was tough enough to drive those demons down.\u00a0 I found out life\u2019s a circus and I guess that I\u2019m a clown.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Poet:<\/span> contained in case file NCS #209 and written in 1996.\u00a0 The client asked me for a response:<\/p>\n<p>I thank you for this piece you share with others who may also know the cost.\u00a0 The kids inside who dare to speak past pains that show.\u00a0 Our children are na\u00efve, innocent and alive, not wrong, no need to pay.\u00a0 Your soul is safe, continue to strive, love your child, savour that day.<\/p>\n<p>Bad things happen to good people for free \u2013 rich, poor, the timid and brave, even me.\u00a0 The paths we journey are endlessly vast, most new, some connections to our past.\u00a0 Get off that dark road, fine one with light.\u00a0 Cleanse the inside, outside, daytime and night.\u00a0 The demons represent a secret bottled up inside.\u00a0 The word is a sword to deliver the spirits of you and me and life is the gift of breath where doves fly free.<\/p>\n<p>Author:\u00a0 Dr. Linda AK Thompson, BGS, MA, CCC, PsyD, FAAETS\u00a0\u00a0Owner, Matrix of Trauma (\u00a9 MOT \u2122):\u00a0 Research, Advocacy, Healing<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">References<\/span>:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Brown, D.P.; Scheflin, A.W., &amp; Hammond, D.C. (1998).\u00a0 <em>Memory, Trauma Treatment and the Law.\u00a0 <\/em>W.W. Norton &amp; Co., Inc.:\u00a0 ISBN 0-393-70254-5<em> <\/em>\u00a0<em>\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Rossi, Ernest L.; Cheek, David, B. (1994). <em>Mind-body Therapy: Methods of Ideodynamic Healing in Hypnosis.\u00a0 <\/em>Norton: ISBN-10: 039331247X<\/li>\n<li><em>Shadow Psychology: <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shadow\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shadow<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Thompson, Linda A.K. (1996).\u00a0 <em>The Matrix of Trauma:\u00a0 A dissertation \u2013 partial fulfilment for requirements for degree of doctor of psychological traumatology in psychological assessments and etymology.\u00a0 \u00a9 <\/em>Unpublished\/Sealed.\u00a0 Summit University of Louisiana, New Orleans:\u00a0 Louisiana<em>.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflections of a Trauma Nurse\/Counsellor\u2019s Academic, Research &amp; Clinical Experiences: Trauma Memories [TM] Experts assert that traumatic memory [TM], unlike ordinary memory, may not be altered by the passage of time.\u00a0 Some argue that traumatic memory is \u2018frozen in time or timeless, inflexible, invariable, and immutable or not capable or susceptible to change\u2019 [1]. 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