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Such changes are called "switching" in clinical practice, and we see them often in individuals with trauma histories. Patients activate distinctly different emotional and physiological states as they move from one topic to another. Switching manifests not only as remarkably different vocal patterns but also in different facial expressions and body movements. Some patients even appear to change their personal identity, from timid to forceful and aggressive or from anxiously compliant to starkly s
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― The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in The Healing of Trauma
― The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in The Healing of Trauma
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If, as a therapist, teacher, or mentor, you try to fill the holes of early deprivation, you come up against the fact that you are the wrong person, at the wrong time, in the wrong place.
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― The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in The Healing of Trauma
― The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in The Healing of Trauma
