A couple of weeks ago I reposted an article on the various levels of trauma-based disorders. It was an esoteric summation (uh, doing it again, huh?) of a complicated 40 some-odd page paper from the leading edge theorists of the Theory of Structural...

How about a dose of reality for myself? Can I truly come to terms with the issues that I face today? Lets see. I have been dissociating quite a bit lately; physical and emotional numbing, and completely shutting down mentally along with feeling alone....

“Every day, five U.S. soldiers try to kill themselves”(CNN.com). HEALING SUICIDAL VETERANS: Recognizing, Supporting and Answering Their Pleas for Help (October 2009, New Horizon Press) is written by Victor Montgomery, III, MAEd., CMAC, RAS, who has...

I received a comment last night from Jeannie and thought that this would have a wider application to those of us who seek treatment for our trauma-based disorders. Talk therapy is an extremely useful tool when utilizing a proper framework with a...

In this reposting I am explaining the split within the combat veteran that allows him or her to be "one person" in a moment and then shift into another completely incompatible individual in the same second. This manifestation of opposing self-states...