"Fifteen years ago, a groundbreaking study was published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine that had (and still has) the potential to revolutionize the practice of medicine. Yet, practitioners and hospitals all over the world largely ignored it and went on the way they always had: dividing our emotional experiences from our physical health. The conventional medical approach segments body parts by specialty in the first place, so how could we make room for the idea that our life stories, specifically what may have happened to us as children, could make us sick or keep us well?
"The 1998 study known as the ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) study clearly shows with a gigantic amount of evidence that our life stories matter a great deal to our health....
"Dr. Felitti believes that, despite the numbers, many practitioners find it hard to get over the hump that psychology is connected to physiology...."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marcelle-pick-rnc/adverse-childhood-experiences_b_3489949.html
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