Treating Complex Traumatic Stress Disorders in Adults Quotes

“The “characterological” features of complex PTSD start to make sense if one imagines how a child might develop within a relational matrix in which the strong do as they please, the weak submit, caretakers seem willfully blind, and there is no one to turn to for protection.”
― Julian D. Ford, Treating Complex Traumatic Stress Disorders in Adults: Scientific Foundations and Therapeutic Models

“The therapist functions as an active, empathic, and responsive listener and guide to enable the patient to voice openly, explore and analyze, and therapeutically work through feelings of grief, anger, guilt, shame, or other emotions that may have been long avoided/suppressed/dissociated or forbidden.”
― Julian D. Ford, Treating Complex Traumatic Stress Disorders in Adults: Scientific Foundations and Therapeutic Models

“Treatment of CTSDs therefore is never a “one size fits all” approach (Cloitre, 2015; Courtois, 1999), one of the pitfalls of an exclusive focus on evidence-based treatments (Courtois & Brown, 2019) or the inflexible application of treatment phases or techniques”
― Julian D. Ford, Treating Complex Traumatic Stress Disorders in Adults: Scientific Foundations and Therapeutic Models