Hi everyone, I’m new here. I’m particularly interested in the positive effects of healing unprocessed trauma (via MDMA therapy[3], psychotherapy, etc). It increases cognitive flexibility, increases compassion, and reduces the rigidness of identities. I think some effects of extreme unprocessed trauma like narcissism, manipulativeness, dehumanization of others, violent crime[1], fascism, etc. have catastrophically large negative effects on society and treating the trauma at the core[2] of these problems should be among the highest of priorities.
Hi everyone, I’m new here. I’m particularly interested in the positive effects of healing unprocessed trauma (via MDMA therapy[3], psychotherapy, etc). It increases cognitive flexibility, increases compassion, and reduces the rigidness of identities. I think some effects of extreme unprocessed trauma like narcissism, manipulativeness, dehumanization of others, violent crime[1], fascism, etc. have catastrophically large negative effects on society and treating the trauma at the core[2] of these problems should be among the highest of priorities.
[1] https://www.google.com/books/edition/Base_Instincts/c_vlTkkvEI0C?hl=en&gbpv=0
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trauma_model_of_mental_disorders
[3] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01336-3
Welcome! You might be interested in my Multi-Agent Models of Mind sequence; people have particularly liked this post, which is about how therapy seems to work; posts such as Building up to an Internal Family Systems model and Subagents, trauma, and rationality may also be of interest.