What is trauma?

What is trauma?

According to Gabor Mate, trauma can be understood as a wound that hardens a person psychologically and interferes with the ability to grow and develop. It creates pain and out of that pain a person acts out. Trauma is not what happens to you but it is about what...
Traumatic re-enactment: The compulsion to repeat

Traumatic re-enactment: The compulsion to repeat

Sandra bloom writes that the realisation that humans tend to repeat traumatic experience has led to the fear that our society is suffering post-traumatic deterioration that could lead to self-destruction as it can do with individuals who remained locked into traumatic...
What is trauma?

What is trauma?

According to Gabor Mate, trauma can be understood as a wound that hardens a person psychologically and interferes with the ability to grow and develop. It creates pain and out of the pain a person acts out. Trauma is not what happens to you but it is about what...
Public health, prevention and violence

Public health, prevention and violence

A major obstacle to creating a more peaceful society is failing to recognise that all of our human systems are ‘trauma-organised’ (Bloom, 2018). In this dynamic there is the victim, the perpetrator and the absence of a protector. In the trauma-organised system it is a...
Prevention and cultural transformation

Prevention and cultural transformation

There is now evidence for the idea that ‘the baby is the father of the man’ (Karr-Morse and Wiley, 1997). This understanding is part of a ‘quiet revolution’ in our own species understanding of itself. Our earliest experiences become ‘biologically rooted’ in the brain...