Dr. Bruce Perry, MD is taking his attachment theory healing for developmental trauma to Washington, as I wrote April 4, in a May 4 program for the National Council for Behavioral Health.
“Perry Rocks Washington” is my alternate title today, because the doc’s also got rhythm. In fact, he and other trauma experts are reporting success with revolutionary treatments using yoga, meditation with deep breathing, singing, dancing, drumming and others.
These principles are so fundamental to our brains, they go back to the dawn of man; the Vedas were sung before 5,000 BC (likely with yoga and meditation.) My book describes how yogic chant and meditation saved my life in 2010, before I ever read a word about brain science.
One California county is trying to cancel such programs, insisting on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) which relies on the thinking brain. But Perry and many experts say talk therapy used alone can re-traumatize many trauma survivors, kids and adult survivors alike.
“Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is great if you have a developed frontal cortex – but we’re talking about a five year old kid who’s so scared to death most of the time that it’s shut down his frontal cortex ’cause he just saw his mother get shot,” Perry told an audience of therapists. “You’re going to do 20 sessions of CBT and expect change? That’s a fantasy.”
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