Theoretical Digressions: Trauma And Incest

He later changed he theory to suggest that intra-psychic conflict and the external trauma causes lots of illnesses. Many aspects of this theory have been applied to the understanding of PTSD. Most people when faced with trauma get over it in a few weeks or months. However, some, especially children, have difficulty coping with traumatic events and integrating these events into their psyche. These experiences will only be repressed and will reemerge to the consciousness when later reminded of the trauma. In Freud’s view not only does the repressed trauma come back later in life, but it will also bring back other unsolved conflicts from

Freud beliefs of young men between the age of four-five in the phallic stage being sexually interested in their mother and aggression towards the father is by far bizarre and disturbing to me. It seems that everything that had to do with neurology in somewhat way lead back to some form of sex or sexuality. In 1892 Freud stopped doing hypnotist practices and changed to free association in order to increase his understanding of neurosis theory.

A particular traumatic setting, traumatic thrashing in addition to an inevitable association with an overwhelming oppressor, bringing about particular PTSD manifestations, proposes that PTSD research may profit by more prominent thought of settings: predator, conspecific and natural, combined with other logical attributes. This may prompt to more noteworthy understandability and consistency of treatment reactions. It appears differently in relation to a general malfunctioning malady based

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, also known as PTSD, was recognized as a disorder with specific symptoms and was added to the Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 1980. Before this acknowledgement, father of psychology, Sigmund Freud, had a developed theory on it. Freud’s Seduction Theory states: “both forgotten childhood trauma and a variety of adult stresses could cause neurosis” (Davis 1). Although not declared an official disorder until the 20th century, characters in literature have displayed the symptoms of PTSD and committed horrific acts as a result of the stresses they underwent earlier in their lives; a modern psychologist is calling this The Medea Complex.

Early traces of some trauma theories and treatments can be attributed to experts such as Freud, Lidz, Ling, and others. Today, we appreciate the breakdown and specifics of the types of trauma. While generalizations about trauma remain, there are standardizations with which trauma is defined. Trauma can be defined as a unique, unusual, overwhelming, and subjective human experience which threatens safety and/or life, producing fear, terror, and/or helplessness caused by extrinsic agents. Types of trauma are generally labeled by the resulted injury, developmental age of the person, frequency, intensity, and cause of the trauma. The list of the types of trauma include physical, psychological, sexual,

Deportation continues to reach all-time highs in our nation. According to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) records, 72,410 people deported in 2013 said they had one or more U.S.-born children. Of those, 39,410 appear reported in the first half of the calendar year 2013 and the remaining 33,000 in the second half. In other words, in one year alone, many thousands of U.S.-citizen kids are separated from at least one parent (Cantor, 2014). Deporting family members can cause trauma to family and may violate 1990 child abuse. Separation from family members can cause undue trauma to children and may violate the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990. Separation of adult family members during the deportation process has also shown

The conceptualization of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) was formally recognized as a psychiatric disorder in the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) and first included in the 10th edition of the International Classification of Disease (Bisson, 2007). The description of stressor Criteria (A) in the DSM-III-R “are described as rare and if Criterion A events did occur it is suggested that initial distress should develop in the majority of exposed individuals as a response” (Resnick, Kilpatrick, Dansky, Saunders, & Best, 1993, p. 984). However, accounts of PTSD have existed for centuries under different names and ideologies e. g. shell shock, battle fatigue, Da Costa’s Syndrome. In the time of Freud, it’s causes were attributed to an individual’s character deficit. During World War II is was understood to be a normal reaction to persistent combat.

In her groundbreaking book, Trauma and Recovery, Judith Herman discusses psychological trauma. In particular, we will focus on her conceptualization of “Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder” (which is not an official diagnosis), and how it relates to and differs from ‘simple’ post-traumatic stress disorder. Beginning with a distinction between the diagnoses, we will discuss the need for the additional diagnosis of C-PTSD, by examining the problems and benefits to both the current DSM diagnosis of PTSD, as well as by considering the implications for diagnosis and treatment. In this context, we will further examine how Herman understands childhood abuse and neglect. Herman states that “the conflict between the will to deny horrible events

Complex trauma is a term that was established to differentiate traumas that occur repeatedly from traumas that happen in only one instance (herein referred to as “simple trauma”; Coutois, 2008). For instance, complex trauma is typically referred to in the context of abusive childhoods wherein the child experiences repeated traumatic events (e.g., physical or sexual abuse) over the course of their childhood. Often the trauma will occur in parent-child relationships leaving the victim under the control of the perpetrator (Herman, 1992). However, complex trauma is not limited to family violence, but can include other prolonged traumatic experiences, such as concentration camps and torture (Williams, 2006). Some researchers have argued that victims of complex trauma experience different psychological challenges than those who are victimized in one isolated incident (e.g., armed robbery). Coutois (2008) delineated seven problem areas that she believes are related to repeated early interpersonal trauma (i.e., complex trauma): 1) alterations in the regulation of affective impulses, 2) alterations in attention and consciousness, 3) alterations in self-perception, 4) alterations in perception of the perpetrator, 5) alterations in relationships to others, 6) somatization and/or medical problems, 7) alterations in

When Trauma and Recovery was first put out in 1992, it was addressed as a revolutionary piece of work. During the prevailing years, Herman’s book had transformed the way we contemplate about and treat distressing happenings and the trauma sufferers. In the new after word, Herman accounts the unbelievable comebacks the volume has stimulated and clarifies how these concerns adjoining the subject had moved inside of the medical municipal and the culture at large. Trauma and Recovery conveys on a new level of accepting to a conventional difficulties typically reflected independently. Herman attractions on her personal leading-edge exploration in the domestic violence as well as on the immense writings of combat veterans also with sufferers of the governmental horror, but to demonstrate the equivalents concerning a person’s secretive horrors such as being raped and with the community traumas such as violence. This manuscript puts singular knowledge into a wide-ranging politically aware structure, in disagreement that the psychological disturbance can be assumed only in a public background.

To me how incest distinguishes it self from other forms of abuse and presents itself as particularly damaging both in the long and short term is that the Exploitation of a child for the sexual gratification of an adult encompasses the terms child sexual abuse, assault and exploitation. This definition also applies to the abuse of a child by those not legally considered adults. It may include one or more of the following: obscene language, pornography, exposure, fondling, molesting, oral sex, intercourse, and sodomy Contrary to popular belief, the perpetrator of sexual abuse is not done by strangers like people think. In fact it is usually done by someone that is known to the child. Effects are numerous and can be long-term. They range from depression and low self-esteem to post-traumatic stress disorder, and multiple personality and borderline syndromes. The frequency and duration have been identified to mediate the effects of the abuse, longer duration and higher frequency have been correlated with greater trauma.

Lou is a genius in working with traumatic stress. He turned Pierre Janet’s work of the 1880’s into a comprehensive treatment model for effectively treating trauma and dissociation. I was able to assist in some of the research that demonstrated the effectiveness of this treatment. Lou taught me two very important ingredients in successfully treating trauma: the value of narrative and a fearless approach of the client’s traumatic

Trauma Theory According to Berger, (1997) that the most centrally of trauma definition is in Freud’s text, the term trauma is understood as a wound inflicted not upon the body but upon the mind; however, what appears to be suggested by Freud in Beyond the Pleasure Principle is that the wound of the mind the breach in the mind’s experience of time; therefore, not available to consciousness until it imposes itself again, repeatedly, in the nightmares and repetitive actions of the survivor. Therefore, after the incident that took place in the client's room one night when she was in the army, they contributed to the client's shock and led to significant negative effects later. In addition, in terms of sex, she is a woman which means she is a

Freud continued his work on repression, memories, and past experiences of trauma to be the motive for all neurotic symptoms. Trauma in past experiences was not always the key determinant for hysteria cases, there needed to be another component for the cause. The combination of past trauma and present trauma awakened memories of the earlier trauma which constituted the true aggravation (Storr, 1989, p. 15). However, he began to see a common factor in his work. Next Freud noticed that a common denominator of all his hysteria cases was premature sexual experiences. Sex encompasses many emotions through mind, body, and spirit that can influence a great deal of character if repressed. Storr pointed out that, “Freud became more and more convinced that the chief

Incest, murder, and suicide; many readers regard Oedipus the King as a story of a tragic hero unable to alter his course of fate. Fate is defined as “a power that is believed to control what happens in the future” (Merriam-Webster). It is believed in Greek Mythology “that many aspects of a person’s life were determined by the three mythical women known as Fates. These were three sister goddesses that appeared in Greek and Roman mythology and were believed to have “spun out” a child’s destiny at birth. They determined when life began, when it ended, and everything in between. At the birth of each man they appeared spinning, measuring, and cutting the thread of life. However not everything was inflexible or predetermined. A man destined to become a great warrior one day cold still choose what he wanted to do on any given day. The gods cold simply intervene with decisions that could be helpful or harmful. In a sense, they controlled the metaphorical life of every mortal born” ("The Three Fates: Destiny 's Deities of Ancient Greece and Rome"). Oracles or prophets were often times used to help see into the future in an effort to possibly change the outcome. However, fate cannot be avoided or altered even if using free will, it is who we are or who we are meant to be, it is set into motion the day we are born.