Susanne Babbel
PhD, MFT
Mind Body, Inner Child, and Hypnotherapy for Healing Trauma
Cow Hollow area of San Francisco
Articles
Regular Columns and Blogs:
- Growing Beyond Trauma, Dr. Susanne Babbel's blog
- examiner.com, bi-weekly articles on PTSD and depression, by Dr. Susanne Babbel
- Somatic Psychology blog, Psychology Today's web site, by Dr. Susanne Babbel
- womensradio.com, by Dr. Susanne Babbel
Quoted by:
- Heitman, Bethany. "8 Ways to Get Over a Bad Day." Cosmopolitan May 2012: 144, 146
- Johnson, Scott. "Oakland Fire Survivors' Scars Aren't All Healed." Oakland Tribune, 20 Oct. 2011. Valley Final: 1A
Articles on Trauma:
Thank you to David Baldwin's Trauma Information Pages for many of these great articles.
- "Symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder after non-traumatic events: evidence from an open population study" by Saskia S. Mol, PhD, Published in British Journal of Psychiatry, 2005, 186, 494-499
- "A Reader's Guide To Pierre Janet: A Neglected Intellectual Heritage" by Onno Van der Hart, Ph.D. & Barbara Friedman, M.A., M.F.C.C., Originally published in Dissociation, 1989, 2(1), 3-16
- "A Role for Prospective Longitudinal Investigations in the Study of Traumatic Stress and Disasters" by John B. Reid, Originally appeared in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 1990, 20(20), 1695-1703
- "Abreaction Re-evaluated" by Onno van der Hart, Ph.D. & Paul Brown, M.D., originally published in Dissociation, 1992, 5(3), 127-140
- "Approaches to the Treatment of PTSD" by Bessel A. van der Kolk, M.D., Onno van der Hart, Ph.D., Jennifer Burbridge, M.A., Originally appeared in S. Hobfoll & M. de Vries (Eds.)
- "Childhood Trauma, the Neurobiology of Adaptation, and Use-dependent Development of the Brain: How States become Traits" by Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D., Ronnie A. Pollard, M.D., Toi L. Blakley, M.D., William L. Baker, MS, Domenico Vigilante, Article published in Infant Mental Health Journal, 16(4), 271-291
- "Conflict Between Current Knowledge About Posttraumatic Stress Disorder & its Original Conceptual Basis" by Rachel Yehuda, Ph.D., & Alexander C. McFarlane, M.B.B.S., M.D., Dip.Psychother., F.R.A.N.Z.P.(1995), Originally appeared in American Journal of Psychiatry, 1995, 152(12), 1705-1713
- "Criteria for Rationally Evaluating Animal Models of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder" by Rachel Yehuda & Seymour M. Antelman (1993), Originally appeared in Biological Psychiatry, 1993, 33, 479-486
- "Dependency in the Treatment of Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder & Dissociative Disorders" by Kathy Steele, M.N., C.S., Onno van der Hart, Ph.D., Ellert R.S. Nijenhuis, Ph.D., Originally published in: Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, 2(4), 79-116
- "Developmental Trauma Disorder; Towards a rational diagnosis for children with complex trauma histories" by Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD, 2005, Psychiatric Annals, pp. 401-408.
- "Dissociation & the Fragmentary Nature of Traumatic Memories: Overview & Exploratory Study" by Bessel A. van der Kolk & Rita Fisler, published in the Journal of Traumatic Stress, 1995, 8(4), 505-525
- "Dissociation, Affect Dysregulation & Somatization: the complex nature of adaptation to trauma" by Bessel A. van der Kolk, M.D., David Pelcovitz, PhD, Susan Roth, PhD, Francine S. Mandel PhD, Alexander McFarlane, M.D., Judith L. Herman, M.D., originally appeared in the American Journal of Psychiatry, 153(7), Festschrift Supplement, 83-93
- "Disorders of Extreme Stress Following Warzone Military Trauma: Associated Features of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) or Comorbid but Distinct Syndromes?" by Julian D. Ford, as published in the February 1999 issue of Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 67(1), 3-1
- "Dyadic Regulation & Experiential Work with Emotion & Relatedness in Trauma & Disorganized Attachment" by Diana Fosha, Ph.D., Originally published in Marion F. Solomon & Daniel J. Siegel, Eds., (2003), Healing Trauma: Attachment, Trauma, the Brain, and the Mind, pp. 221-281
- "Dysregulation of the Right Brain: A Fundamental Mechanism of Traumatic Attachment and the Psychopathogenesis of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder" by Allan N. Schore, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 2002, 36, 9-30
- "Early Childhood Trauma and Disorders of Extreme Stress as Predictors of Treatment Outcome with Chronic Posttraumatic Stress Disorder" by Julian D. Ford & Phyllis Kidd, as published in the October 1998 issue of the Journal of Traumatic Stress, 11(4), 743-761
- "Gift From Within - PTSD Resources for Survivors and Caregivers" by Frank M. Ochberg, Department of Psychiatry, Michigan State University, originally appeared in Psychotherapy, 28 (1), 5-15. [Spring 1991] Republished first in Wilson & Raphael's (1993) International Handbook of Traumatic Stress Syndromes and later in Everly & Lating's (1995) Psychotraumatology
- "Incubated in Terror, Neurodevelopmental Factors in the Cycle of Violence" from Children, Youth and Violence: The Search for Solutions, (J Osofsky, Ed.). Guilford Press, New York, pp 124-148
- "Innovation, Controversy, and Consensus in Traumatology", by David V. Baldwin
- "Instinct and the Unconscious: a contribution to a biological theory of the psycho-neuroses" by William H.R. Rivers (1920), originally published in 1920 by Cambridge University Press in England
- "Introduction to Survival Strategies" by Paul Valent, a modification of a key chapter (chapter 7 by the same name, pp. 115-123) in From Survival to Fulfillment: a framework for the life-trauma dialectic
- "Memories of Fear" web version of a chapter published as "The Memories of States" in J. Goodwin & R. Attias (Eds.) (1999). Splintered Reflections: images of the body in trauma, New York: Basic Books, pp. 9-38
- "Normative Sexual Behavior in Children: A Contemporary Sample" by William N. Friedrich, Jennifer Fisher, Daniel Broughton, Margaret Houston, and Constance R. Shafran, PEDIATRICS Vol. 101 No. 4 April 1998, p. e9
- "Orienting in a defensive world: Mammalian modifications of our evolutionary heritage. A Polyvagal Theory" by Stephen W. Porges, Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, Copyright, 1995 Society for Psychophysiological Research
- "Phenomenology & Psychobiology of the Intergenerational Response to Trauma" by Rachel Yehuda, Ph.D. Jim Schmeidler, Ph.D. Abbie Elkin, B.A. Elizabeth Houshmand, B.A. Larry Siever, M.D. Karen Binder-Brynes, Ph.D. Milton Wainberg, M.D. Dan Aferiot, M..S.W. Alan Lehman, M.S.W. Ling Song Guo, M.D. Ren Kwei Yang, M.D. (second revision, 1997), Originally published in: Danieli Y. Intergenerational Handbook of Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma (1998)
- "Pierre Janet & the Breakdown of Adaptation in Psychological Trauma" by Bessel A. van der Kolk, M.D., & Onno van der Hart, Ph.D., Originally published in: American Journal of Psychiatry, 146 (12), December 1989, 1530-1540
- "Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in a Community Sample of Former Prisoners of War: A Normative Response to Severe Trauma" by Brian Engdahl, Ph.D., Thomas N. Dikel, M.A., Raina Eberly, Ph.D., and Arthur Blank, Jr., M.D., 1997
- "Post-traumatic Therapy" by Frank M. Ochberg, Department of Psychiatry, Michigan State University, from Psychotherapy, Volume 28, No. 1, Spring, 1991. International Handbook of Traumatic Stress Syndromes, edited by John P. Wilson and Beverley Raphael. Plenum Press, New York, 1993
- "Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: One Method for Processing Traumatic Memory" Volume VI, Issue 3, Article 3 (October, 2000), by Pat Ogden, M.A. and Kekuni Minton, PhD., Hakomi Somatics Institute and Naropa University
- "Smaller Hippocampal Volume Predicts Pathologic Vulnerability to Psychological Trauma" by Mark W. Gilbertson, Martha E. Shenton, Aleksandra Ciszewski, Kiyoto Kasai, Natasha B. Lasko, Scott P. Orr, Roger K. Pitman; Originally published in Nature Neuroscience,2002, 5 (11), 1242-1247
- "Somatoform Dissociation in Traumatized World War I Combat Soldiers: A Neglected Clinical Heritage" by Onno van der Hart, Annemieke van Dijke, Maarten van Son, Department of Clinical Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, and Kathy Steele Metropolitan Psychotherapy Associates, Atlanta, GA, Originally published in the Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, 2000, 1(4), 33-66
- "Survivor Guilt in the Wake of a Natural Disaster" by Dr. Susanne Babbel, March 11, 2010 (previously published in Examiner.com, February 6, 2010)
- "The Body Keeps The Score: Memory & the Evolving Psychobiology of Post Traumatic Stress" by Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD., Harvard Medical School, first published in the Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 1994, 1(5), 253-265
- "The Compulsion to Repeat the Trauma: Re-enactment, revictimization, and masochism" by Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD, first appeared in Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 12, (2), 389-411
- "The Effects of Early Relational Trauma on Right Brain Development, Affect Regulation, & Infant Mental Health " by Allan N. Schore, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine, Originally published in: Infant Mental Health Journal, 2001, 22, 201-269
- "The Effects of a Secure Attachment Relationship on Right Brain Development, Affect Regulation, & Infant Mental Health" by Allan N. Schore, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine, Originally published in: Infant Mental Health Journal, 2001, 22, 7-66
- "The Etiology of Combat-Related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders" by Jim Goodwin, Psy.D. (1987), Tom Williams (Ed.) Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders: a handbook for clinicians, pp. 1-18
- "The Neurophysiology of Dissociation & Chronic Disease" by Robert C. Scaer, M.D., Published in: Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, (2001), 26(1), 73-91, based on a Keynote Address presented at the 31st annual meeting of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, March 29-April 2, 2000, Denver, CO
- "The Treatment of Traumatic Memories: Synthesis, Realization, & Integration" by Onno van der Hart, Ph.D., Kathy Steele, R.N., M.N., C.S., Suzette Boon, Ph.D. & Paul Brown, M.D., Originally published in Dissociation, 1993, 6(2/3), 162-180
- "Time Distortions in Dissociative Identity Disorder: Janetian Concepts and Treatment" by Onno van der Hart, Ph.D. & Kathy Steele, R.N., M.N., C.S., Originally published in Dissociation, 1997, 10(2), 91-103
- "Trauma-related Structural Dissociation of the Personality" by Ellert Nijenhuis, Onno van der Hart, & Kathy Steele
- "Violence and Childhood: How Persisting Fear Can Alter the Developing Child's Brain" by Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D., in Schetky D & Benedek, E. (Eds.) Textbook of Child and Adolescent Forensic Psychiatry. Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Press, Inc. (pp. 221-238)
- "When the Victim Forgets: trauma-induced amnesia and its assessment in Holocaust Survivors" by Onno Van Der Hart and Danny Bro, originally published in A. Shalev, R. Yehuda & A. McFarlane (Eds.) International Handbook of Human Response to Trauma, pp. 233-248
