پشتیبانی از دیدگاه بیولوژیکی عصبی تروما با اشاره به هنر درمانی

Three lines of research support the concept that trauma is primarily a nonverbal problem: (a) evolutionary survival responses; (b) brain imagery studies of human responses to trauma cues; and (c) the relation of alexithymia to posttraumatic dissociation. Based on these research findings the authors offer a neurobiological view of psychological trauma that points the way to use art therapy as a primary means of treating posttraumatic symptoms.

A convergence of research findings and clinical observations suggests that posttraumatic disorders involve nonverbal mental activity that escapes or overrides verbal thinking. The idea that trauma is a nonverbal problem is supported by three lines of study. The first line is the study of evolutionary survival strategies that make up the instinctual responses to trauma in animals and humans. The second is the neuroimaging study of responses in humans to reminders of previous psychological trauma. The third comes from recent studies relating the psychological construct of alexithymia to posttraumatic dissociation. These findings support a neurobiological view of psychological trauma that points the way to use of a nonverbal treatment (art therapy) for the adverse effects of trauma.