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The Trauma-Addiction Connection

Exploring the effects of trauma and the roots of addiction.

Trauma
Different Degrees of Trauma II

Frederick Woolverton Ph.D. on March 6, 2012

Teaser: A Series of Articles About Trauma: (1) Are We Born Into Trauma? (2) Different Degrees of Trauma: the "trauma" of birth can be soothed in the first days and months of life—or not. How the earliest trauma is managed will effect a person's reaction to later traumatic events for the rest of one's life.

Teaser: A Series of Articles About Trauma: (1) Are We Born Into Trauma? (2) Different Degrees of Trauma: the "trauma" of birth can be soothed in the first days and months of life—or not. How the earliest trauma is managed will effect a person's reaction to later traumatic events for the rest of one's life.

Trauma
Different Degrees of Trauma

Frederick Woolverton Ph.D. on December 31, 2011

A Series of Articles About Trauma: (1) Are We Born Into Trauma? (2) Different Degrees of Trauma: the "trauma" of birth can be soothed in the first days and months of life - or not.

A Series of Articles About Trauma: (1) Are We Born Into Trauma? (2) Different Degrees of Trauma: the "trauma" of birth can be soothed in the first days and months of life - or not.

Trauma
Are We Born Into Trauma?

Frederick Woolverton Ph.D. on September 15, 2011

If it is true that as infants we are indeed "born into trauma," is it possible that as adults we have the experience of trauma at the very foundations of our psyches and emotional lives?

If it is true that as infants we are indeed "born into trauma," is it possible that as adults we have the experience of trauma at the very foundations of our psyches and emotional lives?