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Sheila Simons - Chair, SEDVP
Brian Quinn – Chair, Newry, Mourne & Down PCSP
Zoe Lodrick
DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE THE HUMAN RESPONSE
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Intimate Interpersonal Trauma:
Neuroscience, threat response in humans and
implications for investigation & safeguarding
Zoe Lodrick
Psychotherapist
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Human response to
threat…....
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Brain function when threatened.........
Amygdala
Thalamus
Hippocampus
Cortex
high arousal
Hypothalamus
Chemical release
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The amygdala mediated response:
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Brain function when threatened.........
Amygdala
Thalamus
Hippocampus
Cortex
3/1000 second after sensory input a pulse
goes to cortex: “what are you making of this”.
high arousal
Hypothalamus
Chemical release
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Human defensive
responses to threat....
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The Five Fs: Defensive fear responses
Friend
Fight
Flight
Freeze
Flop
active defences
passive defences
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The amygdala mediated response:
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Brain function when threatened.........
Amygdala
Thalamus
Hippocampus
Cortex
3/1000 second after sensory input a pulse
goes to cortex: “what are you making of this”.
high arousal
Hypothalamus
Broca’s
Wernicke’s
‘Fear chemicals’ suppress left
hemispheric functioning.
Chemical release
explicit
memory
implicit
memory
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Attachment; its awfully
useful…....
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Attachment in action:
A B A
C
C
C
C C
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Attachment in action expanded:
A B A
C
C
C
C C
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Trauma bonds…....
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Bonding is a survival strategy.....
The amygdala will prioritise the
preservation of attachment over individual
threat response.
There are many, many examples of love
overcoming fear.........
Bonding / attachment is more vital to the
survival of the human species than one
individual’s life!
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Trauma bonds (or ‘Stockholm Syndrome’)
Foundation: Perceived threat to integrity.
Harsh treatment interspaced with small kindnesses.
Isolation from perspectives other than the ‘abuser’s’.
Perceived inability to escape.
Develops after only 4 days.....
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Trauma bonds cont...
Symptoms: Positive feelings toward ‘abuser’.
Negative feelings toward potential ‘rescuers’.
Support of ‘abuser’s’ reasons and behaviour.
Inability to engage in behaviours that will assist release / detachment.
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Trauma is cyclic…....
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Relational patterns persist.
A psychologically
healthy individual
An individual
with a few
‘psychological
knocks and
scrapes’
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A nice fit............
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A poor fit............
feels empty
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A nice fit............
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Man hands on misery to man.... (Phillip Larkin; ‘this be the verse’)
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Feeling ‘bent out of shape’....
The
professional
Highlighting the
psychological
injury
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The challenge for professionals....
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The new psychological shape....
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Categories of
psychological trauma….
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Three main categories:
• Primary
• Secondary
• Vicarious
All can be
accumulative
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The accumulative nature
of trauma…....
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The ‘trauma pot’
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The ‘trauma pot’ overwhelmed......
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The ‘trauma pot’ accumulatively
overwhelmed......
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