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Rich Featherly

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Even awesome "top down" therapy doesn't heal trauma.

Esther Perel has a podcast https://www.estherperel.com/podcast with 19 different one-time sessions with couples. I was impressed with her technique and perceptiveness working with her couples. One of the sessions called "You Need Help to Help Her" with a couple who were dealing with their daughter's mental illness particularly moved me. As good as Esther's skill is, it is a "top down" type of therapy, cognitive. In a session called "Leaving the Shame Behind", she seems to believe that...

Interesting podcast on yet another effect of ACEs - plastic surgery

David VanNuys of Shrinkrap Radio interviewed Mark Constantian MD. Doctor Constantian is a plastic surgeon who noticed a subset of his patients who were trying to remove shame caused by Adverse Childhood Experiences by having plastic surgery. Those patients were often dissatisfied when they woke up and their sense of shame was still there and projected blame for that onto the surgeon. This led Doctor Constantian to study ACEs and write a book about how it affects the profession of plastic...

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