Trauma

Integrated Child & Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (ICAPP)
2021-22, 3rd Block — Mondays, 8:00-9:15pm
Sally Bjorklund, MA LMHC


Introduction

Understanding the effects of trauma and what clinical approaches are used to treat it has a long and complicated history. We will differentiate between T trauma (single episode) and t trauma (relational/developmental). As clinicians many of us work with patients who have experienced relational trauma. This class will provide a basic introduction to the topic and will touch down briefly on a variety of forms of traumatic experience and how trauma may impact transference/countertransference dynamics.

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

  1. become familiar with how neuroscience has revolutionized the way we understand the effect of trauma on the brain.
  2. be introduced to Bromberg's approach to treating relational trauma.
  3. consider the traumatic impact of racism, immigration, and the COVID pandemic.

January 24, 2022

[32 pages]

How Trauma Impacts the Brain

Van der Kolk, B.A. (2014). Ch3 in The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma. pp39-47

Van der Kolk, B.A. (2014). Ch4 in The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma. pp51-73

January 31, 2022

[29 pages]

A Neuroscientist and a Clinician Walk into a Bar

In class- Beatrice Beebe video.

Schore, A. (2012). Foreword in The Shadow of the Tsunami., Bromberg, M., Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. Foreword, pp ix-xxxvii

February 7, 2022

[21 pages]

Working with relational trauma — dissociation, enactment, and multiple self states.

Bromberg, P.M. (2012). Ch1 in The Shadow of the Tsunami. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. pp13-33.

February 14, 2022

[9 pages]

Bromberg, P.M. (2012). Ch2 in The Shadow of the Tsunami. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. pp37-45

February 28, 2022

[19 pages]

Bromberg, P.M. (2012). Ch7 in The Shadow of the Tsunami. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. pp145-163

March 7, 2022

[33 pages]

Layton, L. (2006). Racial Identities, Racial Enactments, and Normative Unconscious Processes. In Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 75(1), pp. 237-269

Psychic consequences of trauma often result in 3-part internal structure: victim, perpetrator, rescuer.

March 14, 2022

[17 pages]

Ainslie, R.C., Harlem, A., Tummala-Narra, P., Barbanel, L. & Ruth, R. (2013) Contemporary Psychoanalytic Views on the Experience of Immigration. Psychoanalytic Psychology 30:663-679

March 21, 2022

[10 pages]

Chalker, C.C. (2021) Can I Get A Witness?: On Being Seen and Heard in a Relational Psychoanalytic Treatment. Psychoanalytic Perspectives 18:374-383

Living through the traumas of 2020-21.