Dr. Webb - I really wanted to thank you for all you do. After 50 years I started going to therapy about 9 months ago. I knew my issue was with my parents but I couldn't understand where my trauma lay. Like many - I thought I had a good childhood but something about me made me unhappy through most of it. Now I understand that I got a terrible role of the dice - a mother with zero ability to express her emotions and many times just a critical/negative presence in my early life and a narcisstic father who only cared about his career and his future legacy in a competitive scientific field. We moved constantly as a child (10 schools before I graduated HS) in order to placate his ego. Needless to say I now realize one could have turned out emotionally well adjusted through those moves if one had parents that knew how to parent. Unfortunately I was left on my own to manage new schools, friends, etc with zero emotional support . I've read your book and I am excited about how I am finally understanding my past and learning to be who I really am. Thank you!
Thanks Dr. Jonice for your wonderful work in understanding one very important aspect of Childhood Trauma which is Childhood Emotional Neglect ( a term introduced by you only). I request you to please make some videos explaining some very common themes like dissociation, tuning out, fantasy in relation to childhood emotional neglect. These themes are now believed to be at the core of development of process/behavioral addictions later in life of the children with childhood trauma. Thanks again for your work.
