Chicagoans talk about the Cubs and the White Sox, which is actually more meaningless to me than about giraffes. You know, most usually when we talk, we don’t talk about very important things. Oh, the dinosaur is going to drink the juice? It’s not an agonizing movie, but it’s a little disturbing. Oftentimes when I show this movie, I hear little sounds coming from the audience, sounds of agony or something. And notice where in your body is this registered and how you respond to it. And so I’d like you to notice when you see this movie, you’ll probably feel some feelings, some emotions. And it shows what happens when two people are involved with each other and suddenly one of the people drops out and no longer responds to the interaction.Īnd the reason that I’m showing you that movie is not so much to pay attention to what happens on the screen, which I’m sure you’ll do anyway, but to pay attention to yourself. And he has a particularly paradigm which has become quite famous. And this fully illustrated by this movie from the laboratory of one of my closest friends, Ed Tronick, who is an attachment researcher at Boston, who has been studying the rhythms between moms and babies and boys and girls for the last 40 years or so. We tend to talk about content, but not about how we jive together as people. Psychologists and social workers, we don’t really talk about it. And what we say is much less important than whether we say it in the right rhythm, in the right musical tone of voice and that the core of our communication is rhythmical and motoric. What Louisa and their little baby Lennox are showing us, is that we are deeply interactive creatures. I thought it would be nice to share it with you. So I’m part of a group of people who do Shakespeare part for traumatized kids also, and this is one of my fellow actors who recently had a baby and she sent me this little video. And our diagnostic system really doesn’t pay attention to that at all. It always gets played out between human beings because we are an intensely social species. What we ofttimes lose track of is how our whole mind and brain is built to have relationships and that when you get traumatized, your relationships get impaired. And slowly, what we have learned, is that with kids, the issue is not so much about traumatic events, but it’s about relationships. And all of the things that we have learned very centrally in the past 30 years or so, we started off talking about trauma and about events. Very important part of the work that we do is to be innovative and to not prematurely think that we have the right answer, because this is very complex. And we talk about, “So, what do you think happens in the brain that glass blowing may indeed someday be an evidence-based treatment and you’ll get reimbursed for having glass blowing things?” I was just talking to Brad Stolbach and his colleague who are doing glass blowing with traumatized kids. But it’s important to know, which most people don’t know, that for every soldier who comes back damaged from war, there’s at least 30 kids right at home who are just as damaged, more damaged and they don’t get nearly as much attention.Īnd so what’s been exciting about the National Child Traumatic Stress Network is that we continue to grow and we learn. We learn both about the damage that trauma causes and treatments from soldiers. You know, the whole field of trauma tends to be out there focused on soldiers, because people go to war all the time and there’s a lot of attention to trauma in soldiers. I like to say this is more difficult than the most complex neurosurgery, except you won’t get paid anywhere close to what neurosurgeons will get paid for it. I think that the work we do and I am very much, you might have, you might have hear Father Donahue talk. And so we are pleased to have him kicking off our day today. He was the co-investigator on the DSM-4 field trial and is the Chair of the DSM Work Group on Developmental Trauma Disorder. van der Kolk has been involved in some of the foundational studies on PTSD, including the first neuroimaging study of PTSD. And this includes his most recently released book, The Body Keeps The Score, which he wanted me to be sure to let everyone know is outselling the DSM-5, which is very important. He has published extensively on the impact of trauma on development, including numerous books. And he’s pioneered the use of a number of innovative treatment methods for trauma, including neurofeedback, theater, and yoga, just to name a few. His work integrates developmental, biological, interpersonal, psychodynamic and neurological aspects of the impact of trauma and its treatment. van der Kolk is the founder of the Trauma Center in Boston and an expert in the field of traumatic stress studies. So I have the distinct pleasure to introduce our keynote speaker for today, Dr.
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