Welcome to The Video Cafe, a collection of important, educational, and illuminating videos that speak to various aspects of psychological trauma.
Below you will find the amazing story of the First Nations people of Hollow Water. Theirs is a story unlike any other. Their entire community suffered an intergenerational traumatic legacy of sexual abuse. They took matters into their own hands. What resulted, was a gift of healing and redemption not just for their community, but to the world and the birth of Restorative Justice. Here is their story... For more, please click on the above tab The Legacy of Hollow Water.
A talk with Judith Herman, the famed psychiatrist that literally wrote the book on trauma Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence-From Domestic Violence to Political Terror. This is one of her few recorded presentations.
Psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk is one of the leaders in the field of psychological trauma and has contributed more to our collective understanding than most anyone else in the field. Here he presents one of his more important and well-known talks.
One of the more well-known and respected medical biophysicist, psychologist, and author, Peter Levine, talks about childhood sexual abuse and relational trauma.
Research professor, author, presenter Brene Brown gives one of her important and enlightening TED Talks on Shame.
Amazing TED Talk with Sue Klebold, the mother of Columbine mass shooter Dylan Klebold. This is a powerful, authentic presentation on living through trauma and a move forward.
Check out this quick two-minute video on the brain's Reward Center.
Expert on PTSD, HOD psychologist Janet Seahorn discusses the deleterious effects of PTSD on the human body, brain, and emotions in this powerful TED Talk.
Spend the next 13 minutes being entertained and informed from "anger researcher" psychologist Ryan Martin talk about the importance and motivating force of anger.
Medecins Sans Frontieres - Doctors without Borders; their incredible story begins here. Fascinating, impacting, necessary, and magnificent.
Clip 1. This brief but important video produced by the Harvard University Center on the Developing Child, shows how a brain, from newborn through early childhood, develops, and helps pave the understanding of the ultra-important role the prime caregiver is during these crucial days, weeks, months, and years.
Clip 2. This brief but important video clip demonstrates what happens to the brain in very early childhood when it becomes overwhelmed with stress, and how this overwhelming stress quite literally changes both the structure and chemistry of the brain, thereby altering its development from healthy to problematic.
Clip 3. This very short video clip is a fascinating demonstration of what happens to an otherwise healthy infant in an amazingly fast period of time, when the primary caretaker does not immediately attend to the infant. The result is dramatic and should give every new parent pause.
Clip 4. This is the original 1950s video clip of the famous Dr Harry Harlow, the "monkey psychologist", demonstrating in vivid detail how a healthy little monkey can go from thriving to severe pathology (and death although this is not shown here) in a matter of minutes. This famous and super important original experiment from Dr Harlow set the foundation for what we know today in the neuropsychology of critical stages in the early childhood of human children. If you have not seen this, it is a fascinating 4-minutes that you will not soon forget.
Clip 5. This is a brief video clip demonstrating the original experiment titled the Strange Situation experiment originally designed in 1969 by master psychologist Dr Mary Ainsworth who was a doctoral student and then protege of the famed psychologist Dr. John Bowlby, the first of its kind on the issue of human attachment. This is a must see for personal insight as well the understanding of how early childhood rearing sets us up, in healthy or healthy ways, to experience close attachments throughout our lives.