"Recovering neurologist" Robert Scaer has devoted his life to studying his own and other people's brains. As a result he is not only intimately familiar with the brain's structure and function, but more specifically, it's special vulnerabilities. He does a masterful job of identifying and detailing many of them, a great number of which many of us will recognize with an "Aha" recognition!

1. The Enchanted Loom
Teasing sturdy threads from
neuroscience masterworks

2. Teasing 10 threads
from
Robert Scaer’s…

3. Thread 1:
The cumulative experiences of life’s ‘little
traumas’ shape every aspect of our existence.
(pg. ix)

4. Thread 2:
The accumulation of neg-
ative life experiences
molds one’s personality,
choices of mate, profes-
sion, clothes, appetite,
pet peeves, posture,
and our state of
physical and
mental health
and disease.
(pg. x)

5. Thread 3:
Around age 62 I be-
came fascinated with
the field of traumatic
stress, and I realized
that, in my marriage
I had begun to
“leave the scene”
and clearly dissociate
during episodes
of stress.
(pg. xv)

6. Thread 4:
Life threatening experiences may be traumatic
if they occur in a state of helplessness.
(pg. 12)

7. Thread 5:
Banishing
helplessness
is a core goal
in overcoming
trauma.
(pg. 91)

8. Thread 6:
One function of
dreaming seems
to be the integra-
tion of threat-
based content into
survival-based
procedural memory,
enhancing survival
skills in the face of
future threats.
(pg. 66)

9. Thread 7:
One of the symptoms
of PTSD is the sense of
a foreshortened future.
It is almost as if victims
cannot perceive of a
future when they will
not be continuously
preoccupied by
a battle with
their demons.
(pg. 70)

10. Thread 8:
Genes do more
than carry
information;
they respond
to experience.
(pg. 87)

11. Thread 9:
A progressive sensi-
tivity to even minor
life stressors as a
result of sequential
life trauma often
results in the
medical profession
labeling such victims
as “hypochondriacs.”
(pg. 64)

12. Thread 10:
Societal impairment of bonding due to early
maternal/infant (rupture) logically leads to
maladaptive feeding behaviors in adults as a
means of com-
pensating for the
maternal attach-
ment they never
adequately
experienced.
(pg. 93)

13. Image Credits:
Title Page: http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans
Slide 3 - http://bit.ly/2tzIkyK
Slide 12 - http://russiananorexic.blogspot.com/
Slide 2 - http://www.eft-and-pranic-healing.com/Trauma.html
Slide 6 - http://bit.ly/2uudRoA
Slide 5 - http://alchetron.com/Drag-Me-to-Hell-17867-W
Slide 11 - http://theunboundedspirit.com/learned-helplessness/
Slide 10 - https://als.lbl.gov/mapping-migration-genetic-material/
Slide 14 - http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans
Slide 9 - https:// www.deviantart.com/art/Dissociative-Identity-Disorder-684930553
Slide 8 - http://abcn.ws/2uE9bN1
Slide 7 - http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/a-hypochondriac-55462
Slide 4 - https://www.bodyzone.com/posture-exercise-and-healthspan/

14. Mark Brady, PhD
TheEnchantedLoom@gmail.com
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