Patriarchal Aspects of Trauma - with author Dr. MaryCatherine McDonald
Breaking Down Patriarchy
Amy McPhie Allebest
4.9 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Amy is joined by Dr. MaryCatherine McDonald to discuss her book, Unbroken, exploring the ways we talk (or don't talk) about trauma, the wear and tear of patriarchy on our nervous systems, plus exercises for responding to trauma, grounding, and empowering ourselves.
MaryCatherine McDonald, PhD, is a research professor and life coach who specializes in the psychology of trauma, stress, and resilience. She has been researching, lecturing, and publishing on neuroscience, psychology, and the lived experience of trauma and stress for over a decade. She's passionate about destigmatizing trauma, stress, and mental health issues in general, as well as reframing our understanding of trauma in order to better understand and treat it. After receiving her master's degree at The New School, where she researched traumatic loss and mourning, she went on to complete her PhD at Boston University. She has published several research articles and book chapters, as well as three books on trauma. Her most recent book came out in March 2023 with Sounds True Publishing and is called Unbroken: The Trauma Response Is Never Wrong, and Other Things You Need to Know to Take Back Your Life.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rookie Down Patriarchy. I'm Amy McPhee all the best. If you look at the word trauma online and scroll down to see its usage, you'll see that the word was almost never used in the 19th century. It picked up more usage in the early 20th century and then increased dramatically after the world wars, and then again increased |
| 0:23.8 | exponentially around 2019. It's now so ubiquitous as to be heard nearly every day, sometimes in |
| 0:31.4 | its technical, psychological context, and sometimes overused as slang, as in I just opened an expired yogurt from the fridge and |
| 0:39.5 | was traumatized. I have to say, even though the term trauma is overused now, I am so glad that |
| 0:47.6 | we are talking about trauma more as a society. And I'm so grateful to have discovered the work |
| 0:53.6 | of Dr. Mary Catherine McDonald, |
| 0:55.4 | who is an expert on trauma and talks about the ways that patriarchy can cause and exacerbate |
| 1:02.5 | trauma. I just finished Dr. McDonald's book Unbroken, The Trauma Response is Never Wrong. And I'm so |
| 1:09.7 | excited to welcome her to the podcast today. Welcome, Mary |
| 1:12.4 | Catherine. Hi, thank you so much for having me. I am so excited to be here. I can't wait to dive in. |
| 1:18.3 | Awesome. So I'll just read your professional bio. Mary Catherine McDonald, PhD, is a research |
| 1:23.6 | professor and life coach who specializes in the psychology of trauma, stress, and |
| 1:28.3 | resilience. She has been researching, lecturing, and publishing on the neuroscience, |
| 1:32.8 | psychology, and lived experience of trauma and stress for over a decade. She's passionate about |
| 1:38.1 | destigmatizing trauma, stress, and mental health issues in general, as well as reframing our |
| 1:43.4 | understanding of trauma in order |
| 1:44.8 | to better understand and treat it. After receiving her master's degree at the new school, |
| 1:49.8 | where she researched traumatic loss and mourning, she went on to complete her PhD at Boston |
| 1:54.9 | University. She has published several research articles and book chapters, as well as three books on |
| 2:00.3 | trauma. The most recent book |
| 2:01.9 | came out in March 2023 with Sounds True Publishing and is called Unbroken, the trauma response |
| 2:07.7 | is never wrong, and other things you need to know to take back your life. And that's the book |
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