Following initial work by Santoro and Spiers [ 131], a rapidly growing literature has documented Theory of Mind deficits following traumatic brain injury [ 132- 136].
Meanwhile, One Mind has begun the largest study ever undertaken of traumatic brain injuries and PTSD.
and traumatic brain injury (T.B.I).
Re "A New Focus on the 'Post' in Post-Traumatic Stress" (Mind, Dec. 25): Social contexts are well-established predictors of adjustment following trauma.
"I've been doing this for a long time, and first of all, to stand out there and not be able to make something happen is very traumatic in my mind," Palmer said.
During this therapy, the patient undergoes a series of eye movements whilst holding an intrusive traumatic memory in mind, leading to a reduction in the emotionality and vividness of the unpleasant mental image.
The situation was so oddly traumatic that in my mind the man is played by the character actor Elias Koteas, of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" fame.
Theorists of dissociation disagreed, arguing that some events were so traumatic that, afterward, the mind was unable to develop as an integrated whole.
Developed more than a decade ago by Dr. Francine Shapiro, a psychologist now at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto, Calif., the technique involves asking clients to summon to mind a traumatic image while the therapist moves a finger back and forth in front of the client's face.
What I found instead was a twisted subculture of licensed therapists, and their clients, who subscribe to a pseudoscientific belief in "dissociative amnesia": The theory that some events particularly sexual abuse can be so uniquely traumatic that the conscious mind cannot comprehend it, and thus those memories are "repressed".
