Our understanding of madness, as expressed in the paradigmatic form of schizophrenia, has undergone a transformation in recent years. There has been sustained resistance, driven by cognitive psychology research and insights from the trauma and dissociation field, to the broadly accepted view of psychosis and schizophrenia as genetically-driven brain diseases. Against this view of madness as ‘incomprehensible’, comes the position that psychotic symptoms are not only meaningful but that their meaning must be understood for genuine healing to occur.
Lecture 1/3: Understanding Trauma and Dissociation, along with Post-Traumatic and Dissociative Disorders
In his first delivered lecture, professor Andrew Moskowitz, Ph.D., focuses on the term trauma which, in common usage, is quite broad, while its formal use in diagnoses such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is quite narrow. He argues for a middle ground, exploring the historical use of the term trauma (as ‘wound’) and conceptualizing trauma as a threat to the psychological (not only physical) integrity of the self – distinct from severe stress but related to dissociation.
These lectures are partly based on the book “Psychosis, Trauma and Dissociation”. Please click here for more information: https://www.wiley-vch.de/en?option=com_eshop&view=product&isbn=9781119952855&title=Psychosis%2C%20Trauma%20and%20Dissociation
Andrew Moskowitz, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Dean of Undergraduate Programs, Touro College Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Parental alienation is a devastating epidemic which is being overlooked. I shudder to think about how many children and parents (approximately 85% fathers) who have been traumatised by the living bereavement of parental alienation.
Great lecture, thanks professor!
Long live stillpoint, utter comrades
what an excellent lecture, thank you all for posting these