My third article What is Complex Trauma? Part3: Reflections on Complexity was published in Perspectives on Trauma (July 2022). A downloadable PDF is attached.
Abstract
This paper follows from my previous articles ‘What is complex trauma?’, and ‘What is complex trauma? Part 2: Working with the body’. This current paper reflects further on the issue of complexity and its practical implications for our work as therapists, examining among other things the nature of the organic change which underpins therapy and setbacks and limitations involved in working with complex trauma. It also reflects on the variety of approaches that may be required by this complexity, and the issue of our competence in undertaking this work.