The minimisation of childhood trauma in favour of drug treatments is an appalling error. Bessel van der Kolk the leading expert on PTSD drags it back into medical focus. Can you still remember the pain in your childhood?
Experiences in our childhood have definitely a lasting effect on our mental health and how we learn to cope with ´reality´.
Rudolf Steiner opined that the human ´soul´is initially (i.e. childhood) dependent on its environment, but can gradually free itself from this external pressure. With respect to Nobel laureate IP. Pavlov (1904), the human ´soul´ is a physiological function of our higher nervous system and ´basic conditioning´ can only be overcome by exercising free will, thought and conscious action. Hope this response is of some value to you, dear Stanley Wilkin ; imo, drug-led medical therapies are more efficient to body issues; psychic issues are to my experience deeply related to spiritual care, values and practices.
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To be free is to be capable of thinking one's own thoughts - not the thoughts merely of the body, or of society, but thoughts generated by one's deepest, most original, most essential and spiritual self, one's individuality.
Rudolf Steiner
It is still open to question whether psychology is a natural science, or whether it can be regarded as a science at all.
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, G. V. Anrep (2003). “Conditioned Reflexes”, p.3, Courier Corporation
Stephen,
It is common in the present to give patients drugs in reception rather than counselling (Medical Fascism 6) thereby the doctors know very little about the patient's background as drugs squash emotions, which drive memories of the past. The deep responses to childhood memories go underground with dire later effects.
The question of psychology being a science, no it is cultural with a pretense towards science. The main effects of Pavlov were social, advertising and Communism in Russia.
Trauma for a child has a wide range certainly including and involving unloving and unsupportive parents. But there is a problem in that often childhood trauma has been fixed on Western material needs being met and Western understandings of what trauma means. Many children in Gaza (and Israel) will experience trauma along with Ukrainian children -not just through the violence but also the kidnappings and manipulation by their kidnappers.
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