The Trauma-Addiction Connection

Exploring the effects of trauma and the roots of addiction.

by Frederick Woolverton, Ph.D.

Different Degrees of Trauma II

Teaser: A Series of Articles About Trauma: (1) Are We Born Into Trauma? (2) Different Degrees of Trauma: the "trauma" of birth can be soothed in the first days and months of life—or not. How the earliest trauma is managed will effect a person's reaction to later traumatic events for the rest of one's life. Read More

Different Degrees of Trauma

A Series of Articles About Trauma: (1) Are We Born Into Trauma? (2) Different Degrees of Trauma: the "trauma" of birth can be soothed in the first days and months of life - or not. Read More

The King's True Trauma

Hollywood isn’t always kind to my profession, so as a Manhattan psychotherapist it was with trepidation that I saw The King’s Speech, a movie depicting the therapeutic relationship that helped King George VI overcome a crippling speech impediment. Read More

Are We Born Into Trauma?

I am fascinated by the notion that we all, as infants, are "born into trauma". If it is true that as infants we are indeed "born into trauma," is it possible that as adults we have the experience of trauma at the very foundations of our psyches and emotional lives? Read More

Reflections on Trust and Trauma

Frederick Woolverton, Ph.D., is a Clinical Psychologist who has specialized in treating addiction and trauma patients for more than twenty-five years.

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