Exploring Trauma Through Brain Science: Dr. Janina Fisher's Perspectives - Academy of Therapy Wisdom
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Janina Fisher, PhD, delves into
Janina Fisher, PhD, delves into the complexities of brain function and its impact on trauma therapy. Building on the insights of Alan Shore, Dr. Fisher explores the intriguing idea that our understanding of the brain might be more nuanced than the concept of a singular, unified self. 👉👉 Learn more: therapywisdom.com/trauma-informed-care-training-fr…
Dr. Fisher discusses the distinct roles of the left and right hemispheres, with the left being the seat of verbal consciousness and the right handling nonverbal, emotional processing. While she acknowledges Shore's assertion that the right brain's emotional and survival functions are crucial, she offers her perspective on whether we are truly conscious of our right brain, given its lack of language.
This video also introduces the structural dissociation model, which provides a framework for understanding how different brain parts influence trauma responses. Dr. Fisher suggests rethinking the "freeze" response, highlighting its role in generalized anxiety and various fears.
Join us as Dr. Fisher navigates these fascinating concepts and their implications for trauma therapy. Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and hit the notification bell for more insightful content on mental health and therapy!
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Transcript:
Janina Fisher, PhD
I found this wonderful quote from Alan Shore after we'd already filmed the section you've already seen. The concept of a single unitary self is as misleading as the idea of a single unitary brain. The left and right hemispheres process information in their own unique fashion and represent a conscious left brain system and an unconscious right brain self system. And I'm not entirely sure. Don't tell. I would rarely disagree with anything Alan Schor says, but I think we are conscious of the right brain. The problem is the right brain has no language. So we have a verbal conscious left brain cell system and a less conscious nonverbal right brain cell system.
And he goes on to say, despite the designation of the verbal left hemisphere as dominant due to its capacities for processing language, it is the emotion processing right hemisphere and its implicit homeostatic survival and communication functions that are truly dominant in human existence.
I don't know if that is true of all human existence. We can think for ourselves, hmm, is my right brain dominant or is my left brain dominant? But certainly we know that this is true of our trauma clients.
You've been introduced to the structural dissociation model, which I think of as our map for this course. And again, if we think about the right brain dominant parts, they do in our clients tend to have more power than
the left brain going on with normal life part, which is why our clients come to therapy. They come to therapy because they're struggling with anger, with depression, with anxiety, with a longing for relationship or with heartbreak. Or they come with fear, which is the freeze part. I've often wished,
that I could rename the freeze part, I think it's better understood as the fear part. Freeze is used to mean the deer in the headlights response, which is terror and paralysis combined. But really in this model, the freeze part can be the generalized anxiety part.
It can be the part that's afraid of spiders. It can be the part that's afraid of the dark, the part that has panic attacks. So think of it as the fear.
And of course, you're beginning to associate different symptoms or presentations to different part
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