Contrast this to trauma, where intense fear (and other strong negative affects), when coupled with the immobility response, becomes entrapping and therefore traumatic. This difference suggests a clear rationale for a trauma therapy model that separates fear and other strong negative affects from the (normally time-limited) biological immobility response. Separating the two components breaks the feedback loop that rekindles the trauma response. This, I am convinced, is the philosopher’s stone of informed trauma therapy.
