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Sexual Trauma: Healing the Sacred Wound

By Peter A. Levine PhD

It’s a shocking statistic: worldwide, one in four people have been sexually assaulted in childhood— and that’s just the conservative estimate. For females, the likelihood is even greater. Of course, we can only speculate how many people are violated as adults. Sexual trauma is clearly one of society’s most serious unresolved issues.


Acclaimed psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk explores his field's long, complex, and stubborn history with trauma. Dr. van der Kolk explains how psychiatry as a whole avoided progress, often misdiagnosing trauma as hysteria or, in the case of shell-shocked soldiers, malingering. The experiences of abused women and children were more or less ignored for a century. They're still being ignored in ways, he says. Psychiatry is still too focused on abstract diagnoses and not cognizant enough of the traumatic experiences that lead to them. His latest book "The Body Keeps the Score" was written to draw attention to how traumatic disorders can be avoided.


The lifelong cost of burying our traumatic experiences.

Past trauma can mean not feeling fully alive in the present.

The trauma caused by childhood neglect, sexual or domestic abuse and war wreaks havoc in our bodies, says Bessel van der Kolk in The Body Keeps the Score

In the busy-ness of our contemporary life, we are drawn into ceaseless activity that often separates us from the deeper dimension of ourselves. With our smartphones and computer screens, we often remain caught on the surface of our lives amidst the noise and chatter that continually distract us, that stops us from being rooted in our true nature. Unaware we are drowned deeper and deeper in a culture of soulless materialism.


How Trauma Can Be Overcome

By Roger Saint-Laurent, Psy.D & Sharlene Bird, Psy.D

Meet Daniel, a man in his 60’s, who is suffering from symptoms of anxiety, hyper-vigilance, difficulty trusting others, and frequent depression. These symptoms have hurt the quality of his life, especially his primary relationship, where Daniel provokes too many arguments.

Like many others, Daniel's had a long history of traumatic events since childhood.


Identifying children with autism early - before age two - is possible and greatly improves their opportunities for development.

By The Psychlopaedia Team
The Australian Psychological Society

Most Australian children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are missing out on two years of vital early intervention due to a delay in identification and diagnosis.