Survival Strategies Table
The table below (based on tables in From Survival to Fulfilment, and Trauma and Fulfilment Therapy), lists specific appraisals which evoke one or other of
Eight survival strategies in traumatic stress. Traumatology.2007; 13: 4-14
This paper makes a case for 8 survival strategies: fight, flight, rescue/caretaking, attachment, goal achievement, goal surrender, competition, and cooperation. Their evolution, and biological, psychological
Physiological and clinical highlights of survival strategies
This is a compact table illustrating the core functions, physiologies, and traumatic manifestations of survival strategies. Download: View Document
Survival Strategies and the Wholist Perspective. (Workshop Series, Seminar 6)
This seminar describes the adaptive and maladaptive biological, psychological, and social aspects of the eight survival strategies. It emphasises the pain related to their traumatic
Attachment: Back to Basics
This paper presents the essential features of the survival strategy Attachment: its biological, psychological and social features, adaptive and maladaptive manifestations, and treatment for it
Attachment and its Ripples, 3d National Conference on Mental Health Aspects of Persons Affected by Family Separation 2006
This paper looks thoroughly at many aspects of Attachment from animal evolution to the depths of the human soul. It examines biological, psychological and social aspects
Attachment and adaptation symptoms and illnesses. Talk to Grief Volunteers
Overactivity of the survival strategies attachment and adaptation (goal surrender) lead to psychophysiological, psychosomatic, and somatic symptoms and illnesses. Examples are provided. Download: View Document
Death and the family. Patient Management 4:11-25
Death in the family is the closest experience to one’s own death. Disruption of a close family bond leads to much heightened morbidity and mortality.
Loss and trauma. Seminar to Victorian Advanced Training Program in the Psychotherapies Alfred Hospital Melbourne
Adaptive and maladaptive biopsychosocial responses to loss and bereavement are described. Traumatic loss leads to maladaptive griefs and depression. Other survival strategies from traumatic situationsleave their
Disaster syndrome in Encyclopedia of Stress. Ed. George Fink. New York: Academic Press
Disaster syndrome is the forgotten opposite of fight and flight. It has been known as psychic shock, General Adaptation Syndrome, and Conservation-Withdrawal syndrome. It underlies
Victims, bystanders and perpetrators in recent times. Talk to Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, University College Melbourne June
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What did you do in the war, daddy?
A view of the war on terror Download: View Story
The human costs to staff from closure of a general hospital: an example of the effects of the threat of unemployment and fragmentation of a valued work structure. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 35:150-154
The closure of a major public hospital had significant effects on the medical and other staff. Special stressors were the perceived meaninglessness of the project
The symbolism of Israeli planes flying over Auschwitz. The Australian Jewish News Viewpoint
On September 5th 2003 three Israeli war planes flew over Auschwitz. The symbolism of this event was very powerful. Symbols are powerful because they condense
Psychological attitudes and war. Social Alternatives 3:55-58
The horror of war, its destructiveness, suffering, degradation and futility may be denied, trivialised, and discounted. War can become a distasteful taboo subject. It is more productive
Shame of Woomera. Herald Sun Op-Ed. p 21.
Incarceration of refugees from the very terrorists that we are fighting is illogical and cruel. Asylum seekers should be given asylum, not detention centres that
