Sublime

The training of competent trauma therapists involves learning about the impact of trauma, abuse, and neglect and mastering a variety of techniques that can help to (1) stabilize and calm patients down, (2) help to lay traumatic memories and reenactments to rest, and (3) reconnect patients with their fellow men and women.

Dr. Schneidman scrutinized the Make-a-Picture-Story Tests and told Hooker, “If you showed me the protocol for thirty schizophrenics, I’d be surprised if I didn’t get twenty-eight. But to identify the homosexuals . . .” He was convinced: “Homosexuality is not a diagnostic category.”

has supposed that she suffered from a brief “psychotic episode” indicative of “schizophrenia.” Bruno Bettelheim, whose trenchant comments on Carotenuto’s book have since been added as a foreword to it, alternates between “either a schizophrenic disturbance or severe hysteria with schizoid features.”

David Barlow. He was (and still is) one of the premiere anxiety researchers on the planet.

The procedure of psychological testing involves all three of these “treatments” for ADD. It is done one-on-one, with the psychologist guiding the individual orally through the tests, making it difficult for him to tune out. The subject is typically highly motivated, trying to “do well” on the test. And the testing situation is highly stimulating du

Through training the brain to seek its own stability, we can ease these terrible sequelae to early childhood neglect and abuse, regardless of the diagnosis given.