I’m still not convinced. I had the audacity to lay into my mother yesterday, in part about the sex abuse of which I speak, yet I am still not convinced. How can these flashbacks of rape, sexual assault, indecent exposure and whatnot be correct? I accept that in traumatic circumstances, people (particularly children) are known [...]
I often get the impression that my mother relives her experiences of domestic violence at the hands of my father vicariously through me. I don’t mean that in the sense that she necessarily has visions of me knocking seven bells out of her, or that she sees my face when she recalls violent incidents, but [...]
I was going to recommend a long academic paper on child trauma and dissociation, but I would have to admit that I haven’t read it all yet due to being really mental these last few days. Nevertheless, it presents several interesting hypotheses, so if you’re interested: Betrayal Trauma: Traumatic Amnesia as an Adaptive Response to [...]
The Main Course My favourite psychiatric article this week was on schizophrenia. Specifically, the piece from X-Ray Technican Schools (I agree that this seems a curious place to have an article on schizophrenia) provided a concise, accessible but intelligent refutation of the many myths that surround this illness. One of my pet hates is the [...]
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