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""And then there are the logical flaws in the doctors’ arguments. The claims from both van der Kolk and Maté that ancient trauma can surface in the body years later cannot be disproved, which makes their claims unscientific.

Think about it: most of us have had at least one bad, even awful, early experience. And most of us also suffer with some kind of ongoing physical or mental ailment. Anyone who wants to connect the dots can easily do so and call it a causal chain of events. Like the palm reader who sees heartbreak in your past—my God, she’s right!—adverse events will always be there, ready to be mined for a future diagnosis of “trauma.”

But who can really know what from our past truly explains our current circumstances?

Maté’s trauma theory also contains some worrisome falsehoods.
“The idea that most of us are carrying past traumas, it’s not true,” clinical psychologist George Bonanno, director of the Loss, Trauma, and Emotion Lab at Teachers College at Columbia, told me.
In his 2021 book, The End of Trauma: How the New Science of Resilience Is Changing How We Think About PTSD, Bonanno summarizes years of epidemiological research showing that most people who’ve experienced potentially traumatic events are not crippled by the experience later in life.

Indeed, a large body of research confirms that resilience is the human default response to trauma. Bonanno says most patients have a “flexibility” mindset, giving them optimism and confidence in their ability to cope. According to his findings, patients usually take a “challenge orientation” in their approach to past trauma—believing they can overcome the challenge rather than be defeated by it.

And yet, the trauma therapists continue to see suffering everywhere."

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Trauma Therapy Has Captured America—and Prince Harry, Too The alluring, but spurious, notion that all our problems stem from childhood has infiltrated our society.