IE244 Dr. Frank Anderson: Transcending Trauma: Expert Strategies for Overcoming PTSD and Emotional Wounds

Frank Anderson, MD, completed his residency and was a clinical instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is both a psychiatrist and psychotherapist specialising in the treatment of trauma and dissociation, and passionate about teaching brain-based psychotherapy and integrating current neuroscience knowledge with the IFS model of therapy. Frank is a Lead Trainer at the IFS Institute with Richard Schwartz and maintains a long affiliation with, and trains for, Bessel van der Kolk’s Trauma Center. He serves as an advisor to the International Association of Trauma Professionals (IATP) and was the former chair and director of the Foundation for Self Leadership. Frank has lectured extensively on the Neurobiology of PTSD and Dissociation and wrote the chapter “Who’s Taking What” Connecting Neuroscience, Psychopharmacology and Internal Family Systems for Trauma in Internal Family Systems Therapy-New Dimensions. He co-authored a chapter on “What IFS Brings to Trauma Treatment in Innovations and Elaborations in Internal Family Systems Therapy” and recently co-authored Internal Family Systems Skills Training Manual. Check out his latest book, Transcending Trauma: Healing Complex PTSD with Internal Family Systems TUNE IN 02:05 - Frank’s story and relationship with trauma 08:26 - How much the collective & our environments play into our personal traumas 13:26 - The danger of perpetuating defence mechanisms 17:47 - How triggers and protections work 29:08 - Where do our wounds come from? 34:37 - Big T and little T trauma 41:23 - Healing wounds and honouring our individual processes 50:37 - Supporting environments that are conducive to being healed, seen & heard 58:18 - Transcending Trauma book & Frank’s vision for an inspired evolution LISTEN & SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2HJCflVnHRDmvNtI8r2a65?si=692723d115ce4ef2/ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/inspired-evolution/id1272090974/ CONNECT WITH FRANK ANDERSON Website: https://www.frankandersonmd.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FrankAndersonMD/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frank_andersonmd/ JOIN THE INSPIRED EVOLUTION COMMUNITY Website: https://www.inspiredevolution/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inspired_evolution/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/inspiredevolution/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/com/inspiredevolution/ Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/inspiredevolution . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.