Healing the Child Within

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Continuing the discussion from MAHA for Mental Health :brain::

The collected works of my Husband Charles Whitfield MD, looks at health and illness from the different angle of childhood trauma, abuse and neglect as underlying physical and mental diseases, disorders and behaviors. Drugs do not solve this. It continues a chronic need for (toxic) drugs. Going within and connecting present conditions with unresolved wounding heals in a deep way and prevents further illness. Cost wise, it is more efficient to pay for individual and group psychotherapy aimed at releasing these wounds than a lifetime of pharmaceuticals to manage but not cure.
Dr. Whitfield’s books are best sellers. His first one *Healing the Child Within (1986 and still selling strong today) was just published in Russian. He spent the last 20 years of his life at the CDC proving his observations. I’m his widow and I worked with him for 32 years, doing individual and group psychotherapy and writing 30 books together and individually. We taught at several universities and he published papers in scholarly journals on this. Together we taught at Rutger’s Universities Institute for Alcohol and Drug Studies for over 34 years.

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Thank you @Indigobabs423 !!

There is work ahead for us. I will circle back to you asap to continue the discussion - today - we can rejoice that our ideas have a chance to be heard!! :us::pray:t2::sun_with_face:

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I am rejoicing “Big Time” too!

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Barbara, thank you again for your post and continuation of my thread, and the continuation of your husband’s work.

A knowledgeable advocate with a voice like yours getting involved is very helpful.

I don’t think anyone is certain where\when\how the site will be utilized, so, FYI I don’t have a sense of direction other than to structure the ideas and figure out the most expedient and explicit way to expose the National mental health crises. In doing my own filtering: I am quite convinced that there are a few spheres that should be treated as priorities where mental health is concerned.

It all starts with corruption of the sciences. A merging of a government regime and institutions of research, and publishing.

  1. Politicized and Overfunded Education System
  2. Health Solutions for Densely Populated Areas = Daily Living must be Simpler = Restoring the Middle Class
  3. Restoring this Classical Liberal concept: Life, Liberty, and pursuit of [SANITY].
  4. Medicalized treatment plans hooking us on Big Pharma where Psychoanalysis could be more effective
  5. Demystifying Therapy as pseudoscience, establishing pragmatic, scientific approaches and disposing of fabricated, politicized nonsense
  6. Health Insurance is heavily influencing treatment plans and corporations. The “Customer Service” Model for mental health care wholly misguided as long as it accepts any nonsense under-the-sun as “Effective”.
  7. There is simply not enough attention on this subject. We are all noticing the lunacy around us, but the pathway to the root causes is wholly obstructed by existential issues like Global Wars and Divisive cultural phenomena that are imminent.

For example, Mental Health was BARELY addressed in the Trump Campaign, for example. This isn’t a critique, but an objective reality. RFK Jr. was the most vocal on this issue during his own presidential campaign. So I am hoping he will be able to initiate some necessary measures for this from within, and we will witness incremental change.

I am definitely not an expert, just an outside observer trying to process the situation - I wish I knew more about the in-roads within the government, the activity of organizations, tracking the money flow, the bad actors involved. But it is quite clear to me that we have systemic corruption of institutions.

Lawyers, doctors, coordinations, authors, practitioners, and whistleblowers etc. have A LOT to offer the new administration so I hope figures like your husband are relied on. Make copies of his notes!

I’m curious, what was Dr. Whitfield doing exactly, at the CDC?

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He was invited to join a group studying the after effects of childhood trauma, abuse and neglect on adult’s physical and mental health. Of the 60 papers they published, he co-authored 8 on mental health and clinical approaches for this population. He wrote several papers on the dangers of Psych Drugs. 17,000 people who had 4 or more ACEs (adverse childhood experiences) where studied over a 14 year period for health problems and quality of life. (He was also on the CDC soccer team until he turned 80.) Charlie was one of the original physicians in the 1980s to observe that families with dysfunction (mainly alcoholics at that point) had many more health problems than families with no addiction. He was also active in helping to develop 12 step programs at the beginning. He authored “The Doctor’s Opinion” for the ACoA (now ACA-- Adult Children Anonymous) Big Book. I spoke with Vince Felitti MD yesterday. He headed up the ACE Study as the head of a Kaiser Perm. Clinic in San Diego where subject pool was. He told me that to this day, even with over 60 published scholarly papers in medical journals – physicians will still ignore it and will not take a trauma history. The same thing happened in the 1980s when Charlie was working on the alcoholism connection. Doctor’s would not take an alcohol history on their patients because they didn’t want to do an alcoholism eval on themselves. Eventually, Charlie ran court ordered individual and group psychotherapy for physicians. Also, in 1986 he published Healing the Child Within which was the first and still widely selling #1 primer on defining and healing from childhood trauma.

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One more thing. The Adverse Childhood Experience Study (if you are going to look it up on line, spell it out. Don’t use ACE Study. You won’t get half the info).

I think the study started with 6 or 7 ACEs and then was expanded to 10. Anyone with 4 or more ACEs was accepted in the study. I had 7 so I understand this work not only as a therapist and author – but as an experiencer!
I am so full of gratitude for Charlie’s work because I know how awful I felt before meeting Charlie and even though I was a psych researcher at UConn Medical School, there were no answers back then for the pain I carried. This is a remarkable study that gets to the root of how we are missing core healing methods. Some of our best books that were selling well have been canceled since Charlie died and at the same time I was kicked off of Facebook.

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This is the back cover of my book: Victim to Survivor and Thriver

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Some of my husband Charles Whitfield’s books. And below are some of my books.

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