Alarming Things Trauma-Focused Care and Polyvagal Theory Believers Do For Health Problems
Are believers in polyvagal theory and trauma-focused treatment practicing unproven and dangerous medicine on themselves and their family members?
Writing about the trauma-informed therapy of Bessel van der Kolk (BvK) and the polyvagal theory of Stephen Porges is not as rewarding as some people encouraged me to believe it would be.
Some advocates of evidence-based treatment express alarm about the powerful influence that BvK and Porges held over what clinicians and patients think about talk therapi…