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Trauma, the Freeze Response and Its Clinical Syndromes
Robert Scaer, MD
The neurophysiology of traumatic stress has primarily been applied to the
diagnosis of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). It is well known that trauma
victims are subject to a wide variety of health problems. Trauma, though, may also
contribute to the onset of a host of chronic disease processes, many in which the
etiology is unknown. Participants will learn about this ground-breaking new theory
on the phenomenon of dissociation and the freeze response as well as its particular
application to many diseases, including fibromyalgia/chronic fatigue syndrome, irritable
bowel syndrome, gastro-esophageal reflux disease, interstitial cystitis, reflex
sympathetic dystrophy, mitral valve prolapse, phantom limb pain, and the whiplash syndrome.
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