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The Enchanted Loom Teasing sturdy threads from
neuroscience masterworks
Teasing 10 threads
from
Robert Scaer’s…
Thread 1:
The cumulative experiences of life’s ‘little
traumas’ shape every aspect of our existence.
(pg. ix)
Thread 2:
The accumulation of neg-
ative life experiences
molds one’s personality,
choices of mate, profes-
sion, clothes, appetite,
pet peeves, posture,
and our state of
physical and
mental health
and disease.
(pg. x)
Thread 3:
Around age 62 I be-
came fascinated with
the field of traumatic
stress, and I realized
that, in my marriage
I had begun to
“leave the scene”
and clearly dissociate
during episodes
of stress.
(pg. xv)
Thread 4:
Life threatening experiences may be traumatic
if they occur in a state of helplessness.
(pg. 12)
Thread 5:
Banishing
helplessness
is a core goal
in overcoming
trauma.
(pg. 91)
Thread 6:
One function of
dreaming seems
to be the integra-
tion of threat-
based content into
survival-based
procedural memory,
enhancing survival
skills in the face of
future threats.
(pg. 66)
Thread 7:
One of the symptoms
of PTSD is the sense of
a foreshortened future.
It is almost as if victims
cannot perceive of a
future when they will
not be continuously
preoccupied by
a battle with
their demons.
(pg. 70)
Thread 8:
Genes do more
than carry
information;
they respond
to experience.
(pg. 87)
Thread 9:
A progressive sensi-
tivity to even minor
life stressors as a
result of sequential
life trauma often
results in the
medical profession
labeling such victims
as “hypochondriacs.”
(pg. 64)
Thread 10:
Societal impairment of bonding due to early
maternal/infant (rupture) logically leads to
maladaptive feeding behaviors in adults as a
means of com-
pensating for the
maternal attach-
ment they never
adequately
experienced.
(pg. 93)
Image Credits:
Title Page: http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans
Slide 3 - http://bit.ly/2tzIkyK
Slide 12 - http://russiananorexic.blogspot.com/
Slide 2 - http://www.eft-and-pranic-healing.com/Trauma.html
Slide 6 - http://bit.ly/2uudRoA
Slide 5 - http://alchetron.com/Drag-Me-to-Hell-17867-W
Slide 11 - http://theunboundedspirit.com/learned-helplessness/
Slide 10 - https://als.lbl.gov/mapping-migration-genetic-material/
Slide 14 - http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans
Slide 9 - https:// www.deviantart.com/art/Dissociative-Identity-Disorder-684930553
Slide 8 - http://abcn.ws/2uE9bN1
Slide 7 - http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/a-hypochondriac-55462
Slide 4 - https://www.bodyzone.com/posture-exercise-and-healthspan/
Mark Brady, PhD [email protected]
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