How Trauma Impacts Memory: Select Workshop Videos & Slides - Psychotherapy for Men focusing on Trauma, Relationship Problems, and Depression & Anxiety

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Perhaps the most important memory science concept we’ll explore is “memory reconsolidation.” This is the fact that whenever we remember a memory, it gets updated with new information.

So, when a trauma survivor remembers trauma in the context of therapy, the therapist is able to facilitate new information to help soften, diminish, end the emotional distress associated with those trauma memories.

For imagery or EMDR therapists, this is why the intervention of having the trauma client travel back as the healthy, wise adult and reassure their younger self in the midst of the memory of the traumatic event. This has been commonly known as “healing the child within.”

Here are two videos of memory reconsolidation:

Karim Nader who discovered memory reconsolidation while working with Joseph LeDoux:

Watch this fascinating Rapid Resolution Therapy session and follow-up video of a 9/11 survivor who experienced severe trauma symptoms for years. Be sure to watch the follow-up session at the 10:30 minute point in the video.

We will be discussing this video and the neuroscience that makes it work.

Here are some other videos & slides I use in the workshop.

Videos:

Jim Hopper

Domestic Violence

Psychology Today: Profile of an Abuser.

Pedophile Priest Claims “it was like a game…my nephew didn’t object….”

Myths and Facts about Male Sexual Abuse and Assault

Collapsed Immobility

Tonic Immobility

Bunny Freeze

Dr. Christine Blasey Ford use of memory science

Dr. Christine Blasey Ford excerpts

How the Brain Stores Memory

Dr. Pat Ogden Describes Implicit Memory

Explicit Memory: Semantic and Episodic

EMDR Session

Key Concepts to be defined and discussed:

Trauma
Brain-Mind
Memory Continuum
Memory Reconsolidation
Polyvagal Theory
Sympathetic-Parasympathetic Nervous System
Defense Circuitry
Habits & Reflexes
“Bottom-Up” Brain Processes
Tonic & Collapsed Mobility
Implicit & Explicit Memory
Memory Processes: Encoding, Storage, Retrieval
Central and Peripheral Details
Mind-Body Therapy Integrative Methods

Brain

100 Billion Neurons
Brain makes new neural connections through the stimulation of ideas, feelings and actions (learning)

Mind

Information transmitted through the neurons and neural networks

Jim Hopper, Phd

Amnesia for childhood sexual abuse is a condition.

The existence of this condition is beyond dispute.

Repression is merely one explanation– often a confusing and misleading one –

for what causes the condition of amnesia.

Some people sexually abused in childhood will have periods of amnesia for their abuse, followed by experiences of delayed recall.

A national sample of 500 psychologists were asked whether they had been abused as children and, if so, whether they had ever forgotten some or all of the abuse*

24% reported childhood abuse (120 & 25,440 nationally)
Of the 24% reporting abuse,
40% reported a period of forgetting (48 & 10,160 nationally)
Major findings were that (a) both sexual and nonsexual abuse were subject to periods of forgetting
The most frequently reported factor related to recall was being in therapy
50% of those who reported forgetting also reported corroboration of the abuse
Reported forgetting was not related to gender or age of the respondent but was related to severity of the abuse.

*Shirley Feldman-Summers & Kenneth S. Pope: https://kspope.com/therapistas/amnesia1.php

Stephen Porges Polyvagal Theory

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Jean Martin Charcot, late 19th Century

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