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- 0:00Trauma Therapist Podcast, Episode four hundred thirty. Hey guys, welcome to the
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- 3:00guys, welcome back to the Trauma Hippers podcast. I am very excited to
- 3:05have back a very special guest, Professor Mulli Lahad. Doctor Lahad, welcome
- 3:10back. Hi, I'm very happy to be here with you. So.
- 3:15Doctor Lahad is a senior medical psychologist who's been working with individuals, civilians,
- 3:20as well as soldiers and veterans suffering from PTSD since nineteen seventy five. Doctor
- 3:24Lahad is a founder and president of the Community Stress Prevention Center in Kiryat Shmona,
- 3:30Israel, the oldest center in the world that deals with community as an
- 3:34ecological entity for recovery and healing pre and post critical incidents. Doctor Lahad is
- 3:38author and co author of thirty five books on resiliency and coping from early childhood
- 3:45old age has developed the intricative model of coping and resiliency. His most recent
- 3:50book is The Lonely Ape That Told Himself Stories The Necessity of Stories for human
- 3:54Survival, Doctor Lahad, welcome back. You know, before we were,
- 4:00you said, you know when when you saw my invitation, you were,
- 4:04you were happy and surprise and you were wondering why I wanted to have you
- 4:08back, and I wanted to share that with everyone. I've been doing this
- 4:13for you know a few years now, and after four hundred plus interviews,
- 4:18naturally, there are certain interviews that that stick with you, and there are
- 4:24certain people that stick with you that certainly stick with me. And you're one
- 4:28of those people because of your passion, plain and simple and and that's what
- 4:32this is about, you know. I hope this, this podcast is about
- 4:38that passion, the human spirit and and for helping other people at its most
- 4:44elemental. So welcome back, Thank you very much. I'm really honored.
- 4:51So let's um you you joined us back on episode one on one for those
- 4:58people who maybe didn't catch that episode, and I would definitely encourage people to
- 5:02after they hear this to go back and listen to that. Give us a
- 5:05snapshot, if you would, Molly, of where where you're located and the
- 5:15how you got into this, and then we'll dive into what we were talking
- 5:17about before. Okay, I'm living in the north of Israel or in general
- 5:25and Israel, because I would say that Israel is a natural laboratory for trauma
- 5:30and resilience and all that. The story of how I got into it is
- 5:34a very kind of simple story in many ways, but yet special for me.
- 5:41I came to a place that was in those days in nineteen seventy nine,
- 5:46under constant shelling and lots of fears from what then was considered terrorist attacks
- 5:55or some people called it political in conflicts or whatever. Kahmuna was a very
- 6:04remote town at the time. It's still the very northern town of Israel,
- 6:09but then in those days, from Tel Avision to kiachnight was over four and
- 6:14a half hours in a country that altogether from north to south is five hundred
- 6:18kilometers. It looks as if it was far far away. And I came
- 6:24for one year because I wanted to work with the children there who were under
- 6:29shelling, and tourists infiltration for since the seventies. And what I realized,
- 6:39and this was, I would say, the turning point is that people are
- 6:45making it. People are living despite ongoing threat, and you know, every
- 6:50so often shelling and they make it. They leave, they they marry,
- 6:57They have of course bad times and times all together, they manage. And
- 7:01so I started to look into the question. It in those days was mostly
- 7:06termed cooping. Nowadays it might be seen as resilience, and that led me
- 7:14to my first study and then a series of studies on how people are making
- 7:19it in impossible situations and ongoing situation where adults and kids are in the same
- 7:26under the same threat. Earlier on when I studied was mostly on patients or
- 7:31soldiers, and here it was civilians. And so the basic pH which we
- 7:35talked last time the model came out and I realized that there is a lot
- 7:42of I would say, challenges and many many things that I can experiment with
- 7:49and develop, and that the field is very, very open, at least
- 7:55in those days, for creative approaches. I think I mentioned to you that
- 8:00when I started talking about resilience or coping a net in this manner in the
- 8:05early eighties, late seventies, people thought that I'm probably affected by the rockets,
- 8:11and I'm probably also a bit confused because who was talking about people making
- 8:18it trauma meant only to make you disabled, not to make you thrive.
- 8:24So I believe that since then things have changed and there later on I developed
- 8:35or developed more methods, mostly using creative methods with the trauma processing, and
- 8:41a lot of time spent on developing resilience programs and opening the first I would
- 8:50say community stress prevention center, which is nowadays with a game, being called
- 8:56a resiliency center rather than stress revention, which is basically working throughout the year,
- 9:05not just following a crisis. I mean, we worked then and we
- 9:09still work on what might be seen as a kind of inoculation or helping people
- 9:16to develop those methods that can help them in times of distress. And I
- 9:22think that I mentioned one last thing that I'll stop is that what I found
- 9:26that recovery from trauma needs to be in the ecology of support. It means
- 9:33you need to look at the community, you need to look at the family
- 9:37in order to help those who are affected to recover. Really, since then,
- 9:45I'm mostly dealing with the power of imagination and playfulness in helping people to
- 9:52recover from people. Okay, so so many things are coming into my mind
- 9:58here. The first which is just a reaction and I know I had this
- 10:03last time. I could not imagine living in a zone where there's the ever
- 10:13present threat of these bombings, of these shellings. I mean, and you're
- 10:18talking about this this you were surprised to see people coping like through almost would
- 10:26you use the word thriving or getting through getting that did? But I mean
- 10:31on the main impression that I had is that what I studied. And I
- 10:37came to the North from a mental health a very heavy mental health institude,
- 10:43which told me that to look for pathology all the time. And here I
- 10:46did see pathology, but I also saw people making it living, some of
- 10:54them of course thriving. But I wasn't talking about then about post traumatic growth.
- 10:58I was just saying, well, not everyone is affected, and people
- 11:03can leave in such situations. And what surprised me and what made me study
- 11:09what actually is helping them? That was the main question, because I came
- 11:13brief preconceived ideas of what is the effect of trauma? Well, that's it,
- 11:18that's it. That's a great question, so what did what did you
- 11:22find? Well? I actually found in the very early studies that people are
- 11:33using various methods that could be seen as the defense mechanism. And I immediately
- 11:39not the contum of defense is stopping the world from coming in. Where I
- 11:46thought, maybe the better way to it is how do they go out to
- 11:52the world meet the world? And so the first studies was done with children
- 11:56and adults, and I I was surprised to see that, of course there
- 12:01are differences, but altogether they're using this what I call the six channels that
- 12:05I mentioned the last time, which is the belief system that means people who
- 12:11have either self esteem or outside belief like religious believe or they're looking for meaning
- 12:18what does it mean to me that I'm living in this situation. The second
- 12:24way that we found is the affective mode. Those for them meeting the challenge
- 12:30is by expressing their emotions either directly or indirectly that could be through music,
- 12:35through meditation, whatever. And then I looked at the other channels, which
- 12:43is the third one is social that means those who are driving or coping or
- 12:50making it by either taking a role or needing to be in a group or
- 12:56taking upon themselves a role with others asking for support, and with the teachers.
- 13:05I found that for them it was very important that there is a system,
- 13:07means there is a system that supports them whilst they are taking care of
- 13:13so many kids. Then the other way we found was imagination. That's the
- 13:18eye of the basic pH and the eye means you are using imagination. And
- 13:24basically that was the beginning of my studies about the impact of imagination because again
- 13:31in my upbringing, and you know that I have two PhDs, and I
- 13:33did lots of studies, and what I learned in the past was that imagination
- 13:39is basically a way to understand your subconscious and all this. And here I
- 13:46could see how people using imagination, humor, creativity and other ways of being
- 13:56what you call it improvisation to make it. So I started listening and looking
- 14:03into that and we might talk about it later. And that's the imagination.
- 14:07Then, of course cognition, which is very very known, or those who
- 14:11are mostly focused on problem solving, making sense of things, making priority orders,
- 14:16etc. And the last mode of coping that we found was the physical
- 14:22one that is either being active but not only active. Again, there was
- 14:28a misunderstanding that only if you are active cope, for you are really coping.
- 14:33But I found it people have a passive mode like relaxation, like going
- 14:39to sleep, like eating, and again, because I came from clinical psychology
- 14:46background, all of that were looked as a negative way, unproductive way,
- 14:50and I said, no, no, look at how these people are using
- 14:54it in order to make it through ongoing situation, as you said, shelling,
- 15:03infiltration of terrorists, et cetera. Now, just to be clear,
- 15:07these qualities or elements that you're talking about, these were utilized by people kind
- 15:16of unconsciously, not as ortaciously spontaneously, right. They weren't oh, I'm
- 15:22going to go to the therapist and learn how to do X or y.
- 15:24This is just what they were doing naturally. Indeed, indeed, my main
- 15:31quest in this life is to look how people recover on their own, what
- 15:37helps them, and after observing and learning about it, I try to see
- 15:41if we can make a model or just learning from what is helpful to people.
- 15:46Now I was talking as if it's either or, but people can be
- 15:50both imaginative and cognitive, both emotional and physical. I mean they can use
- 15:54variety of those, and the more channels you have the more ways you have,
- 16:00you're more flexible. And only in later years, I would say in
- 16:03the late nineties the idea of resiliency as flexibility came about in the professional books.
- 16:14We already talked about it in nineteen eighty two, but we didn't know
- 16:18that the concept of flexibility, but the ability to use variety of modes was
- 16:22very apparent with those who really had hard times but could recover on their own
- 16:29accord, in their own way. And this is as fontaneous, I definitely
- 16:33say in hindsight. After we studied the way and we started teaching these modes,
- 16:41people could learn to use it. But the basic thing was that we
- 16:45were looking at how people are hoping and analyzing it into this or categorizing into
- 16:52the six channels as we cod it is one of the things that you know,
- 17:00we're not alone here in the States and in the West about the stigma
- 17:07of post traumatic stresses or the stigma of trauma. Just being able to talk
- 17:11about it it is a great first step. Did you find that, given
- 17:18the context in the situation, that people were more understanding or more accepting of
- 17:27the fact, well that this could potentially be traumatic, that we are living
- 17:32in this type of zone was that I hope that I understood you correctly.
- 17:40I think that they knew where they leave. They were using terms that I
- 17:47could the non naming way of coping. That means they never said rockets or
- 17:52katusha rockets. They said the visitors. But one of the things. I
- 17:56mean this was in the eighties, but the effect of Community Stress Prevention Center
- 18:03that is there all the time has helped people to understand they can use those
- 18:11terms. They can be open about it because it's not saying anything about their
- 18:18I would say abilities, disabilities, and of course about the mental stability,
- 18:22but I mean to destigmatize it. It takes a long way. I want
- 18:27to tell you that on the entrance to our center it says in bold letters
- 18:37trauma because I think that you need to say to people you're suffering from something.
- 18:45We are willing to talk about it, because I think there is a
- 18:48dual suffering. Once you're suffering from trauma, and then you suffer from not
- 18:53being able to say I have trauma. So you're kind of retraumatized by that
- 18:59or over traumatized by the fact that you can't share it, and the more
- 19:03you normalize it. Unfortunately, Yes, I know that majority of people who
- 19:08are exposed to trauma recover on their own accord, quicker or slower. But
- 19:15those who have been traumatized many times as themselves. Am I crazy because I'm
- 19:22the only one that is behaving this way and there were other people, especially
- 19:26when you're talking about the community. I could see my neighbors, I could
- 19:30see my spouse, I can see my children. Why am I suffering?
- 19:34And so it's even more important to say, yes, we don't know why
- 19:40you personally have developed these symptoms, but it's not an abnormal condition. In
- 19:48fact, we are trying to tell people that PTSD is not a oology.
- 20:00It's a kind of a failure in the process of recovery because so many people
- 20:06have been exposed and only and all of them were on the road to recovery,
- 20:11and some didn't make it. It's not pathology, it's about my mind.
- 20:15Something happened on the course of recovery, and we will help you to
- 20:21join the course of recovery as much as possible. Let's let's talk about the
- 20:27role of imagination and how it plays out with kids with adults. Talk to
- 20:34us about that. I'm using both imagination and play for us because what we
- 20:41observed, and what we have observed for a long time, is that people
- 20:45who are suffering from PTSD cannot be playful. They can't play mostly because they're
- 20:53getting into this mode that they called on guard. They are standing on guard
- 21:00not to remember, not to be exposed to anything that might trigger their emotions,
- 21:08and so they're on guard all the time. Once you're on guard,
- 21:12you can't be playful and you don't use your imagination. I need to correct
- 21:18myself. They use imagination only in negative terms. That means they keep being
- 21:26overwhelmed or trying not to be overwhelmed by the images that have been the outcome
- 21:37or the result of the trauma. And the principle that we have developed is
- 21:44based on, first of all, that they are not playing because they're frozen.
- 21:48They're refraid. I mean, if if you see a very very traumasous
- 21:52child coming into the playroom or the room, in most cases, they will
- 21:56be very very uptight and frozen, or they will be so mum in a
- 22:06position that they can't really relax that they will basically destroy the whole room.
- 22:11Um. So what we realize that you have to reintroduce imagination and playfulness.
- 22:21I agree that imagination is a source of a lot of suffering. But again
- 22:26coming from this idea that you might call homeopathy, that saying cure says I,
- 22:34if imagination is the problem, then imagination needs to be the solution.
- 22:42And to so many clients who said that I can't use imagination, said,
- 22:45but your experts of imagination, all these nightmares, all these flashbacks are basically
- 22:52images that are coming from the inside. They are not outside, and you
- 22:56know they're not outside, but you're sure that once they are overwhelming you,
- 23:00you can't really differentiate, or you can't give yourself a chance not to be
- 23:06hyper alert, hyper vigilant, not to feel, not to get into any
- 23:11excitement I mean negative excitement, of course. So based on that, based
- 23:17on my studies, I came to a conclusion. Of course, it's my
- 23:25conclusion that for PTSD people, people who suffering from from PTSD, images are
- 23:34the part that are the most difficult for them. And in imagination images memories,
- 23:42pictorial memories, visual memories that are not in existent because it's something of
- 23:48the past, or basically making the life impossible. And together with that inability
- 23:56to play, I can tell you one kind of once told me you see
- 24:02If I am sensitive to my kids and they will start crying, this will
- 24:10put me off my own guard position. If, on the other hand,
- 24:15I will react to them, I will immediately be immersed with my emotions,
- 24:19which I don't want because they'll be of my own guarding position. And so
- 24:26from that moment we develop a method too slowly, slowly reintroduce the idea of
- 24:33playfulness and for then we develop a method called c far CBT that is a
- 24:38combination of body imagination, playfulness and cognition. And we're using cards. We're
- 24:48using cards in order to encourage the client to retell the stories. And because
- 24:56cards, I would say, and images pictures are international language, we found
- 25:03that you can use it both with children, adults, and in various cultures.
- 25:07And these are not cards that specifically made for trauma or for revealing your
- 25:14story. These are cards that we call therapeutic cards because they have been used
- 25:19in mostly am bibiotherapy and storytelling methods. But they are any cards can do
- 25:26it. Unlike virtual reality, I don't need to produce anything. I just
- 25:32allow the client to find six. Six is a number that I like.
- 25:36As you understand, six cards to start with, and just they either tell
- 25:41me the story whilst looking at the cards, or they don't need to tell
- 25:45me a story, but they look at the card and whenever they move from
- 25:49one card to the other, they just know me their head and I know
- 25:52they slowly slowly started to tell themselves or to me the story. But where
- 25:57is the playfulness. The playfuln is that I allow them to take out a
- 26:03card that they don't that they would like to get rid of, which is
- 26:07impossible in reality because the trauma was a trauma. And I also encourage them
- 26:14to look for cards and have they been with them, which I call fantastic
- 26:18reality because it wasn't in reality anyway, have they been with them in this
- 26:26situation they could have helped them even though the situation has happened and they can't
- 26:32change the outcome and the impact of playing with the cards, moving the cards,
- 26:38adding cards slowly slowly introducing them a very simple concept of being flexible,
- 26:45playful and using imagination and for me and the method is of course studied,
- 26:52and for me this ability to help the client, unlike other methods, to
- 27:02be active in the player in the I would say re narration and editing of
- 27:06the story. But more than that, to be in an observer of their
- 27:11own trauma, because you see, in most methods you're asking the client to
- 27:17close their eyes to bring the story over, their eyes open to remember the
- 27:21story. But here, because they have the cards in front of them,
- 27:26they're actually observers in their own trauma. And I think that this ability to
- 27:33this and being an observer in your own trauma and the editor of your trauma
- 27:40and the player in your cards is a new concept of how to help.
- 27:49I love that that's what we do. One of the things that strikes me
- 27:55about that, Molle is you know you talked before about one of the symptoms
- 28:02people are dealing with sometimes are these flashbacks, these images, and it can
- 28:07be quite frightening for someone to start working with with the imagination. How do
- 28:15you create that space of I would imagine it would have to be a really
- 28:18safe space. How do you what do you do to create that? So
- 28:25many methods are using the concept of safe place. For instance, MDR is
- 28:32asking the person to imagine a safe place. Again, because I'm so much
- 28:37into the visual apparatus, based on many studies which you don't have time now,
- 28:41I think to address, we are actually starting by asking the client to
- 28:48choose a card, to put it on a piece of paper and to expand
- 28:52it with colors slowly, slowly to create the card they're choosing, are accorded
- 28:57for them, reminds them, or is an image of safety, serenity,
- 29:03etc. So we starting with that. The first phase of the methods for
- 29:10CYBT is very much about teaching the client how to reduce arousal and anxiety,
- 29:22resourcefulness, how to find basic page, how to find their own resources.
- 29:26Only when they gained all these methods and slowly, slowly they are playing with
- 29:33the cards before they start telling the trauma, because they're using it as images
- 29:37of support, images of safety. Then we go into the reneration and there
- 29:45are the intermediate phases, but the first part of the treatment is safety and
- 29:49security, and we say them we won't move anywhere before I'm sure that you
- 29:55have the tools to help yourself. Talking about this image, it's interesting.
- 30:00I was working with parents of children who have been abused, most of them
- 30:04sexual abuse, but not by family members. And what the parents told me,
- 30:11you see, I am seeing movies of this horrible event although they haven't
- 30:18been exposed to the situation, but their imagination is working over time and they
- 30:22see again and again like flash books of something they haven't been part of.
- 30:26But because the emotions and they need to have some kind of a grasp on
- 30:33what have happened, they keep on imagining horrible things. And the first time
- 30:40they said that someone really took it seriously and I said, okay, so
- 30:44you have a movie in your head, try to find those six images here
- 30:49that will help you to tell me this haunting so to speak. Movie was
- 30:57a real relief for them because it wasn't only haunting them, and now it
- 31:03was externalized and they could look at it. It was painful. I can't
- 31:08say it's not painful, but it's manageable because, if, for instance,
- 31:12the client feels overwhelmed, like in any card game, I said, well,
- 31:18let's close all the cards. And this very act that the game is
- 31:22of very known playful mode of of of games helps them to kind of ritually
- 31:33ritualizing, you know, Okay, now we're closing the game and then they
- 31:37can reopen it. One other thing I want to say about this method is
- 31:42that you can tell the story from the end to the beginning because you have
- 31:45all the cards, so you can say you can start with the end and
- 31:49go to the beginning. What we call playback in in films, that you
- 31:56go back, okay. So it's interesting way of helping people to muster,
- 32:05to feel in control, and to start feeling that. Of course it's a
- 32:09story. They have the feeling it's a frozen story, and now it's more
- 32:15manageable and flexible. So inspiring. Molly, I love it. I love
- 32:21talking to you. I'm just realizing that we didn't even get to your book.
- 32:25I'm gonna have to. I'm gonna have to. I would love to
- 32:30invite you back and we can talk about your book if you're up for that,
- 32:32Okay, okay, okay, yes, And I encourage people to read
- 32:37it before we speak because it's a It has lots of stories. Basically,
- 32:43there is a chapter where I actually gave up all my stories because I decided
- 32:47that this book will have all the therapeutic stories that I'm using. So not
- 32:52only what is the meaning and why we need stories, but you have the
- 32:58treasure of the stories that I'm using for forty years now. So that book
- 33:02is called The Lonely Ape That Told Himself Stories the necessity of stories for human
- 33:07survival. Will have that linked up here at the show notes page at the
- 33:10Traumatist podcast dot com movie. As we close out here, do you have
- 33:15any book recommendations for whether trauma or lad or not or story? I would
- 33:22you recommend to you one very good book that is also using a concept of
- 33:30drama, not only of trauma. It's called Trauma Centered Psychotherapy by very good
- 33:37colleagues of mine from the States where I spend some of my sabbatical with them.
- 33:43It's David Grey Johnson who is a psychologist and his wife who is a
- 33:47psychiatrist, and him is Hada Lubin. It's an amazing book. Take it
- 33:53from a different perspective, and I think it will be helpful to therapists and
- 34:00be a more interested in this subject. Okay, so the Principles and Techniques
- 34:02of Trauma Centered Psychotherapy by David Free Johnson and Padara Lubin. Yea, indeed,
- 34:10Wullie, I want to thank you so much. We'll have you back
- 34:14and we'll spend that time talking about the stories. Thank you so much.
- 34:19You're welcome, Bye bye, all right, once again, thank you to
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- 35:08guys, I just want to say that I am thrilled to have this
- 35:10podcast sponsored by CPTSD Foundation dot org. You know, a little while ago,
- 35:15I actually got to meet the founder, Athena Moberg of CPTSD Foundation.
- 35:21We met here in San Francisco, sat down, had breakfast, and it
- 35:25was amazing. You know. I got to feel and see her passion,
- 35:30the passion that she has for this work and not just for therapists and clinicians,
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