Interpreting Trauma Responses: Dissociation and Reactivity

Do you tend to attribute frustration with someone or with yourself to personality? “It’s just the way they (or I) am.”

While it’s efficient in the moment to bypass the challenging detective work to find out why you or another is reacting in a certain way, it limits growth in the long run. Being stuck in a typecast role limits you from developing your full identity and life.

Interpreting Trauma Responses: Dissociation and Reactivity is a workbook designed to go deeper into unprocessed childhood material that lies beneath the surface of your reactions. You often have been reacting for so long, you correlate an emotional defense as your innate personality.

Similar to ebooks, Resolving Abandonment and Rejection, Retrieving My Childhood Self, Feeling Grief, Loss, Anger, a lot of my clinical work is analyzing patterns of bonding and conflict to interpret emotional and psychological issues underlying each person’s reactions. This book outlines the tools to do so for yourself.

This can be used as a stand alone resource, with the JOURNAL app, with your partner or a therapist. Understanding your adaptations, defense mechanisms, ego, conflict tolerance, and your fight or flight response systems allows you to deepen your maturity, benefiting yourself and all your relationships. Your hard won efforts forever alter your intergenerational legacy of trauma.

Contents

• Introduction: I’ve been saying the same thing and they always forget…
• Defense Mechanisms
• Ego, Conflict and Intimacy Tolerance
• Camoflauge- Introverted Defenses (Skills)
• Fire:-Extroverted Defenses (Skills)
• Resources

Estimated read time, 28 minutes