EMDR – Part III: Theoretical Causes of PTSD
Theorists have attempted to explain the brain mechanisms behind Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. One theory, the Adaptive Information Processing Theory postulates that traumatic memories are a problem with the mind’s information processing system.
EMDR – Part II: Is There a Relationship Between Trauma and Mental Illness?
“… chronic childhood trauma is to psychiatry what germs are to general medicine.” Dr. Colin Ross
EMDR – Part I: What is EMDR?
So perhaps we should not be asking “Why do you do the things you do?” but instead “What happened to you?”