Trauma
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Surviving Psychopathic Parenting (part 3): Trainspotting (at Clapham Junction)
One way of surviving psychopathic parents was to become immersed in the world of trainspotting. The drugs, alcohol and destruction, and why I resonate with this 1996 film Though I joke somewhat, reacting to emotional abuse can easily easily end… Continue reading
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Surviving Psychopathic Parenting (Part 2) Why I broke my grandmothers clock.
‘Working with trauma is as much about remembering how we survived as it is about what is broken’ (Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score, 2014) I broke my grandmothers bedside clock. I didn’t kick it, throw it, sit on it,… Continue reading
James Ballantyne 