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In the past 20 years, the mental health professions have made much progress in understanding the human mind. Studies of neurochemistry, brain anatomy, and neurophysiology have led to new knowledge and new treatments. One of the most important areas of new knowledge is a series of discoveries that came, in large part, from patients’ self-help groups, rather than researchers’ laboratories. These are the advances that have been made in understanding the role of traumatic events—i. e., catastrophes that threaten the survival of the self—in the development of mental disorders. This understanding represents a major breakthrough because the study of trauma had been stymied for many years by theoretical models of the human psyche that placed too little weight on actual events. It took great effort to reorient the professions.
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Perez, B., Kennedy, G., Fullilove, M.T. (1995). Childhood Sexual Abuse and AIDS. In: O’Leary, A., Jemmott, L.S. (eds) Women at Risk. AIDS Prevention and Mental Health. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1057-8_4
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