Are We Overusing The Word "Trauma" & Critique Of The Body Keeps The Score

The Checkup with Doctor Mike

DM Operations Inc.

Medicine, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 19 January 2024

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Professor George Bonanno is a world-renowned expert on Trauma and has spent decades teaching at Columbia University in NYC. His opinions on the subject have gotten him in some hot water online too, as he believes our cultural understanding of trauma is incomplete and often incorrect.

Buy Professor George Bonanno's book "The End Of Trauma" here: https://www.amazon.com/End-Trauma-Science-Resilience-Changing/dp/1541674367

Follow Professor Bonanno here: Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/giorgiobee Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/giorgiobee/ Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/george-bonanno-610a0a22a/ 00:00 Intro 1:20 Are You Really Traumatized? 16:37 What’s Wrong WIth Psychology Today? 20:44 How To Overcome Trauma 26:00 Repressing Memories 29:05 Emotional Trauma Causing Physical Symptoms / Psychosomatic Stress 47:52 Getting Over Breakups / Coping Mechanisms 54:23 Addressing His Controversy 57:55 Resiliency 1:05:20 Post-Traumatic Growth 1:11:30 Addressing His Controversy Pt. 2 1:15:27 PTSD 1:20:15 Fixing Modern Psychology 1:25:03 My Trauma 1:28:25 Social Media

Executive Producer and Host: Doctor Mike Varshavski

Produced by Dan Owens and Sam Bowers

Art by Caroline Weigum

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0:59.2	I went through some childhood trauma stuff that I never really talked about on
1:03.9	social media but I was always under the impression that that was somehow gonna impact
1:09.7	me to this day negatively and it didn't and I always felt like I was doing something
1:17.2	wrong because it didn't affect me negatively as if I should have been traumatized, but I'm not.
1:23.8	That means I must be repressing it.
1:25.4	What you went through is actually the empirical norm in a way, that you went through something
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