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Trauma Specialist (BA, BSW, MSW, RSW)

Christine Forner has been working with survivors of domestic abuse, child sexual abuse and other forms of severe abuse and violence for 35 years. She is a clinical social worker, working in private practice, specializing in dissociative disorder, complex post traumatic stress disorder and other early attachment harms.

Christine is a past president of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation and lectures internationally on the issue of dissociation, complex trauma, and the intersection of dissociation and mindfulness. She has authored a number of articles on the topic of dissociation and mindfulness and most recently her work has focused on the origins of misogyny and the patriarchy from a neurobiological and trauma lens. She is the author of Dissociation, Mindfulness and Creative Meditations: Trauma Informed Practices to Facilitate Growth.

Forever In Our Feelings
29
Dec. 12, 2023

Forever In Our Feelings

In trying to explain inequality between the sexes - we often arrive at the idea that women inhabit the emotional realm, and that men inhabit the thinking realm - and in the hierarchy of realms, thinking is considered superior. In this episode, trauma and dissociation specialist Christine Forner crushes the “feelings versus thought hierarchy” and breaks down how absurd - and harmful - this fictional concept is. She also takes Elle on a deep dive into what human emotion, or the affective circuitry...
The Oldest Trauma
2
Oct. 18, 2022

The Oldest Trauma

What if misogyny is not the hatred of women - but a phobia? What if patriarchy is not a power structure - but a pathology? And what if we could trace these twin phenomena back to their point of origin like we can trace the eruption and evolution of a virus? Elle has a rapid-fire conversation with trauma specialist and scholar Christine Forner about tracing patriarchy and misogyny back through - not just history, but the evolution of human neurobiology. Between her scholarship in the field of tra...