Comments on: 13. Trauma, Empathy and Counselling http://msf.ca/blogs/StevenC/2008/04/02/14/ Sat, 04 Apr 2009 14:53:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: alison, red pill pusher http://msf.ca/blogs/StevenC/2008/04/02/14/comment-page-1/#comment-39 alison, red pill pusher Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:22:50 +0000 http://msf.ca/b/?p=14#comment-39 To continue with your descriptors of 'memories as malady' which includes remembering some and dulling others... Memories are located in history along a preferred storyline. When this storyline is punctuated by trauma, this particular traumatic event will disassociate or disconnect from the original system of memories, and no longer exist in the dimension of time. If memory cannot be located in time (has no beginning or end) it will always remain and be experienced in the present, (most often diagnosed as PTSD). ...As mental health helpers, how do we seek to re-direct and re-orient traumatic memory back into the historical timeline of 'selfhood' with those we are working alongside? What psychiatric treatment/ counselling practices might be employed for the purpose of aiding a person in reclaiming 'misplaced memory'? And more specifically, how might your experience of listening to personal stories and engaging in possible future conversations with Amane inform/ speak to this process? To continue with your descriptors of ‘memories as malady’ which includes remembering some and dulling others… Memories are located in history along a preferred storyline. When this storyline is punctuated by trauma, this particular traumatic event will disassociate or disconnect from the original system of memories, and no longer exist in the dimension of time. If memory cannot be located in time (has no beginning or end) it will always remain and be experienced in the present, (most often diagnosed as PTSD).

…As mental health helpers, how do we seek to re-direct and re-orient traumatic memory back into the historical timeline of ‘selfhood’ with those we are working alongside? What psychiatric treatment/ counselling practices might be employed for the purpose of aiding a person in reclaiming ‘misplaced memory’? And more specifically, how might your experience of listening to personal stories and engaging in possible future conversations with Amane inform/ speak to this process?

]]> By: Hiba http://msf.ca/blogs/StevenC/2008/04/02/14/comment-page-1/#comment-38 Hiba Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:56:06 +0000 http://msf.ca/b/?p=14#comment-38 How's your sleep? How’s your sleep?

]]> By: Silvia Yasuda http://msf.ca/blogs/StevenC/2008/04/02/14/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Silvia Yasuda Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:49:55 +0000 http://msf.ca/b/?p=14#comment-36 Salam Malekum Steve! My name is Silvia and I am also a psychiatrist. I m so excited after reading your messages! I just came back from Darfur (Habilla project by MSFCH - very close to the chadian border) on January 08 after 9 months. It is great to know that there is a MH team around. The landscape on the pictures, the tukuls, the people remind me of Habilla (most massalit, some fur). There are so many similarities (and some differences as well) to our experience that it would be a shame not to share it. Please write! Salam Malekum Steve! My name is Silvia and I am also a psychiatrist. I m so excited after reading your messages! I just came back from Darfur (Habilla project by MSFCH – very close to the chadian border) on January 08 after 9 months. It is great to know that there is a MH team around. The landscape on the pictures, the tukuls, the people remind me of Habilla (most massalit, some fur). There are so many similarities (and some differences as well) to our experience that it would be a shame not to share it. Please write!

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