TU:80 Nervous Systems in the News: Dr. Blasey Ford, Sexual Trauma Stories and the Power of Patriarchy

Published: Oct. 4, 2018, 1:57 a.m.

b"We joke around a lot on this show, but when it hits the fan we are serious therapists devoted to treating real people and all kinds of survivors.\\xa0 Today we give our best guess on they science behind why people are responding overwhelmingly to Dr. Ford's testimony - calling national and local crisis hotlines in unprecedented numbers.\\xa0 We speak in this moment not from a political perspective, but from a somatic, nervous system perspective.\\xa0 Something has stirred in the American public even different than the #MeToo movement, and we speak to it on this episode.\\nWe also touch on the science of memory, implicit and explicit, mirror neurons, stress hormones and threat responses and most importantly the power of patriarchy to harm both women and men, both political parties and our democracy as we know it."