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When Dr. Herman and Dr. van der Kolk met in the 1980s, she was treating the daughters of working-class Irish and Italian families, who were coming forward with stories of sexual abuse. He had been treating veterans who seemed trapped in the past, exploding with extreme rage at minor frustrations.
She was reserved; he was expansive. Dr. Herman likes to call herself “plain vanilla,” doggedly faithful to psychodynamic psychotherapy; Dr. van der Kolk is “flavor of the month,” always exploring new treatments, first Prozac, then body work and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing.
They had this in common: The patients they treated had been routinely dismissed by the psychiatric establishment as malingerers or hysterics. “We were in explicit agreement,” Dr. van der Kolk said. “We noted that people in academia were often very cruel to each other, and we made a pledge to have each other’s back.”
She Redefined Trauma. Then Trauma Redefined Her. - The New York Times
Ellen Barry
> Two simple tricks to reduce new commitments:
> • When someone asks you to do something in the future, ask yourself if you'd want to do it if it were today. If the answer is no, say no.
> • If you're about to say yes to something under the assumption that you'll have more time for it in the future, say no to it instead.
Fwd: How to Change Your Life: The Case for Slowing Down
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Atlantic Monthly. Taylor’s account of eating a generous lump of hashish in Damascus was the first article in a popular U.S. magazine that discussed the psychoactive effects of cannabis.
Smoke Signals
Martin A. Lee
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