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the aid 0f her growmg network of CRM practi- tioners, Schwarz s most powerful ally may be her patience. Several months after she traveled tO Canada tO conduct the neuroimaging ses- SlOn with Lanius, the results came back. The scans suggested CRM had led to what Lanius described as "significant changes" in the brain areas that help us govern overwhelming emo- tions and are especially relevant tO trauma. Schwarz received another bOOSt in Septem- ber, when Lisa Merrifield, a clinical psychologist in Omaha, Nebraska, captured additional phys- iological evidence 0f CRM's effects. Merrifield used an electroencephalogramto assesseight- participants before and 24 hours after inten- sive CRM sesslons. The EEG, which measures e ctric spcuous changes tO the brainwave patterns Of all eight participants. Merrifield said the results ofher small pilot study, conducted at Schwarz s retreat near Beulah, Colorado, merited further investigation. ln January, Schwarz and Corrigan returned tO London, Ontario, tO run a four-day seminar tO teach Lanius and her staffthe basics ofCRM. ln science, such glimmers could be seen—at best—as intriguing clues, and certainly not con- clusive evidence. For Schwarz, though, they seemed like starbursts. lt no longer seemed inconceivable that a day would come when the data would confirm what her heart and gut have been telling her for years: Each ofus has a trove ofhldden resources that canhelp us transcen even he cruelest Of abuse, horror and betraya , ifonly we dare 100k within. ロ Matthew Green s 00 ftershockf ・ Fighting ar, Surviving Trauma and Finding Peace, documents the stories Of British soldiers finding new ways tO treat PTSD. MatthewGreen 」 ournalism.com @Matthew—Green NEWSWEEK 37 APR 比 07. 2017

white glow. Schwarz watched through a window 仕 om an adJ acent controlroom and spoke through an intercom linked t0 Cleary's headset. 。。 HÜ Eli say jusuinviting—yow-tæactivate ー the deepest wound, the deepest dandelion root that is still feeding on not enough,"' Schwarz said, in the commanding tone she adopts with clie nts. lnvite your body t0 remember it fully—a hidden remnant or a buried piece. Just think about all the times you tried really hard and it just wasn't enough—whether it was your mom, at schOOl, with other girls, at college. Just inviting your bOdy, not your brain, tO remember. Just inviting the deepest wounds to fully be revealed. " Cleary remained as still as possible as her 01d sadness welled up and the machine—emitting a high-pitched thrumming sound—took 160 lmages during the eight-minute scan. These snapshots would later be processed intO a three- dimensional map 0f activity ⅲ her brain. Then the palr retreated tO an Offce for a CRM sesslonwhere Schwarzworked on Cleary's sense of"neverbeing enough" before they conducted another scan. The next day, Lanius invited Schwarz and Corn- gan intO a basement classroom with peppermint- green walls t0 address about a dozen 0f her psychiatry students. For the two friends, taking this mode st public platform alongside such an esteemed authority on PTSD seemed like a mile- stone. The students listened carefully as Schwarz and Corrigan used a whiteboard t0 illustrate their theories 0f how power animal," energy gnd" and "core self" exerclses might stimulate brain areas linked t0 feelings ofsecurity and trust. Though they have worked together for four years, the tWO friends are an mcongruous duo. A soft-spoken academic fluent in the jargon of brain anatomy, Corrigan is a fellow 0f the lnternational Society for the Study Of Trauma and DiSSOClatlon, writes peer-reviewed papers and is co-author Of a textbook on the neurobi- Ology Of trauma. Having made it his mission tO explain CRM in neuroscientific terms, Corngan frequently dives into such detail that Schwarz, a relative newcomer tO the topic, has tO marshal all her focus to keep up ・ WhiIe the less-orthodox aspects 0f Schwarz s model might have prompted some neuroscl- entists tO ban her from their Offce, Lanius was uniquely placed t0 (b)ectively conslder her approach. Unlike many 0f her colleagues who are focused SOlely on research, Lanius treats PTSD patie nts—including C anadian vete rans of Afghanistan. Outside the rarefied world of neuroimaging studies, in the grittler confines Of a trauma clinic, she knew that taciturn former combatants Often began tO open up when she ve ntured outside the strictly scientific re alm by saying: "Tell me about your soul. "Really, the [CRM] model is a combination Of spirituality3chwarz tOld— the class. "we're trymg t0 really clarify the neu- robiology so people can see the model for what it really is, and not what people presume it t0 be because ofsome Ofthe aspects that seem tO be a little.. .What's the word, Frank? ” strange ~ " venture d corngan we armg a Ch ar- acteristic deadpan expresslon. Strange," said Schwarz, with a nod and a wry smile. NOVEL—AND very strange—forms Of bOdy- oriented psychotherapy have been around for at least a century, drawing mspiration from Frie- drich Nietzsche's dictum that "there is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philos- ophy. " Though once confined t0 the fringes, they began tO gain greater traction ⅲ the mid-1990s, when Dr. Bessel van der KOlk, a combative pro- fessor of psychiatry at the Boston University School Of Medicine, wrote an influential paper on trauma called "The B0dy Keeps the score. ln September 2014 , Van der K01k galvanized the movement by publishing a best-seller 0f the same title that built on his clinical expenence and れ VO decades ofadvances in neurosclence. Van der Kolk is a notable advocate 0f Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), a PTSD treatment in which therapists stimulate bilateral movement ofclients' eyes by waggmg a finger in front 0f their face or shin- ing flashing lights. Despite initially being dis- missed in some quarters as quackery, EMDR is now backed by enough clinical evidence to have been adopted as a standard treatment in Britain, even though nobody knows qultehow it works. Other body-based schools studies include "sensorimotor psychotherapy and 'equine therapy, in which participants confront their atterns in human relation- ship s while le arning t0 b ond with a horse. With SO much guilt and shame Often attached tO trauma—Karen described feeling like a piece powe 了 animal' gives YO optiO れ 5 : ' A SLEEK, VELVET-COATED JAGUAR NEWSWEEK 35 APR に 07 , 2017

scan her b0dy for even the smallest points where she could still feel a sense ofbeing centered and present. He then asked her tO imagme JOlning these dOts with bars Of energy tO create a grid of light" crisscrossing her body—a CRM tech- nique tO stop her dissociating. patients say that this imagmary structure—the grid—serves as a kind of"emotional scaffolding" that keeps them stable as painful memones surface. ln later sesslons, Barclay invlted Karen tO choose a power animal" tO help her confront more of the abuse she'd suffered ⅲ childhood. Rather than conjure an lmagmary animal, as clients often do, Karen drafted ⅲ her adopted horses, imagining that they were close tO her the whole time, watching W1th loving, protective eye s. Barclaywent on t0 teach her another grounding exercise, known as 'CRM Earth breathing," ln which Karen imagined she was filtering energy up from the Earth's core, drawing it t0 the base 0fher spine through the sole 0f one f00t then expelling it out the Other. ln another breathing exercise, she released anger by seeing herself "fire breathing smoke and flames like a dragon. And she learne d t0 bathe herselfin kindness by visualizing the act of inhaling and exhaling through her he art. Some psychiatrists will lump such techniques intO the same waste bin as tarot cards and crystal he aling, and advise patle nts tO instead try one Of the standard therapies widely endorsed by gov- ernment health regulators. Many practitioners use trauma-focused cognitive behavioral ther- apy, a form oftalk therapy adapted t0 treat PTSD. Though CBT therapists may also use breathing and relaxation tOOls, the core Ofthe process rests on leading trauma survivors through an "expo- sure exercise tO revisit their most distressing memone s SO they gradually become e asier tO bear. At the same time, the therapists will talk through what happened with the clients t0 help them arrlve at a less threatening mterpretation SO the past loses its grip over the present. Stud- ies show the approach can help people who have suffered a one-offevent such as a car crash or Ⅵ 0- lent assault. However, there is far less evidence tO suggest it helps people W1th the most complex pre- "l'm worried that l'm going 50me0 れ e and this is れ 0t going t0 end w 可 to hurt NEWSWEEK 32 APR 比 07. sentations: those whO, like Karen, have suffered multiple traumas over many years. Here is the problem with cognitive thera- P1es, according tO the CRM innovators: Talking engages primarily with the prefrontal cortex¯ the walnut-contoured upper layer 0f the brain that processes language and abstract thought. This "top-down' approach might help some- b0dy t0 cope better with their symptoms but t0 truly resolve decades-old fear, anger or shame, the therapist needs tO find a way tO influence the pnmitlve, mstinct-driven parts Ofthe brain near the top 0fthe spine. words alone are unlikely t0 have much impact on these deeper, preverbal regions. The best way tO rewire this emotional brain" is tO help clients work from the "bottom up by putting their physical sensations at the center Of the process. For clients like Karen, whose lives are organized around escapmg these feelings, the first task is tO regaln a sense of self-mastery over their own body. "ln order to confront the deepest layers of anxiety, fear and survival terror, you have tO go beyond just telling stories about the past, says Domna Ven- touratou, a Greek psychotherapist and founder of the lnstitute for Trauma Treatment in Ath- ens, WhO trained under Schwarz. "You have tO find ways to safely unearth 01d emotions stored deep in the body. ln CRM the emphasis is on making sure these emotions can be dissolved safely. Prac- titioners claim the breathing exerclses, visual- izatlons and Other t001S can help cleanse toxic emotions from the emotional brain ” while actlvating neural pathways associated with being cared for and nurtured. Girded with their power animals," and Other resources, survivors can finally release feelings that would have otherwise been t00 overwhelming tO face. TO resolve trauma you have t0 go back and re-experience it, rather than just understand says Barclay. ℃ RM provides the t001s t0 d0 that in a way that conventional talking therapies, and indeed many trauma-focused therapies, Often don't. That's why it leads t0 breakthroughs. " For all the enthusiasm, however, the obstacles to CRM and other body-focused therapies becom- ing more W1dely available are formidable. Govern- ment regulators te nd tO approve only tre atments that have been subJected to large and expensive clinical trials—whether they be new therapie s or drugs. Although several insurers will cover CRM sesslons in the U. K. , this is not yet the case in the much larger U. S. health market. Schwarz and her collaborators in S cotland plan to launch a joint U. S. - し K. treatment outcome study in the fall, but accumulating persuasive data can take years and 2 017

The problem, as Karen academic psychiatrist at King's C011ege London discovered, iS that even and an authority on psychological injury in the with the support ofthe most U. K. armed forces, backs innovation but warns sympathetic therapisty such that clinicians shouldnotplace undue faith in feelings areoften t00 much a new PTSD treatment before it is validated to bear. That's why Schwarz by rigorous research. not saymg we don t equips her clients with tOOls need tO treat [PTSD], but the impetus is to do tO give them the strength tO it right, because dOing it wrong can harm peo- confront the raw emotions ple and also dissuades people from going to get they've kept locked deep other treatments. inside for so long. lnspired The battle here is about more than the future of by Native American heal- PTSD therapy. Throughout history, some of the mg arts, mystical traditions biggest breakthroughs in SC1ence have been made and the practices 0f tribal by individuals whose hunche s prompte d them shamans, some Of these tO embrace convention-shattenng ideas—often before the data backed them up. Perhaps the big- resources reqtllre S01 れ e - thing 0f a metaphysical gest hurdle for mavericks in any discipline is that leap. These include vanous intellectual orthodoxies te nd tO perpetuate them- selves. lt's usually much easier t0 obtain funding breathing and visualization exercnses, and alSO work to tinker at the edges of what is already known, with eye positions—based rather than demolish cherished assumptions. Few on the theory that different funding bodie s make grants based on Albert Ein- stein s maxim: "lf at first the idea is not absurd, emotions correlate tO mm- then there is no hope for it. ” ute variations in the direc- tion Ofgaze. At key points The dominant school in psychology today is the process, Schwarz a11 れ S cognitive therapy, a form 0f talk therapy aimed tO help clients tap intO their at helping patients feel better by encourag- intuition by posing what she ing them t0 think differently and change their calls her "magical question behavior. Often used in tandem with medica- tO find out what aspect Of tion tO suppress symptoms ofdepression or anx- their trauma history needs iety, cognitive therapies are backed by a wealth to be tackled next: "Don't 0f scientific research. Although nobody claims think. Ask your body, not they work for everyone, they have become SO deeply embedded in a global, multibillion- your brain, and take the first dollar complex of pharmaceutical companies, answer that comes. The unusual aspects Of insurance firms and health departments that CRM do not stop there. Patients can learn to critics are only half-joking when they describe safely dissolve long-buried distress by making them as a quasi-religion. With such entrenched interests at stake, dissidents armed with an a sound—usually a prolonged, high-pitched alternative paradigm are sure tO face resistance, note—in a process known as toning. Par- ticipants can alSO call on imagmary beings in the form of power animals"—therapy-speak calls them 'finternal attachment figures ”—tO "They're really well-meaning accompany them through the darkest tunnels people, but they of their past. These often take the form of big cats, wolves, bears or birds. None Of these enti- me up even WO 「 se : ties are, Of course, real in any ordinary sense, but CRM practitioners believe these and other resources can help patients connect with what they call the core self ”—an mner essence perhaps even mockery—especially 朝 om empir- lmmune tO life S cuts and bruises. —ically minded psychiatrists allergic t0 anything WhiIe Schwarz is fired by the conviction that that sounds remotely like W00- W00. Nevertheless, there are plenty 0f therapists she can help countless people for whom existing ready tO argue that you don't have tO be a crank methods have failed, there is a risk that some specialists may assume talk Of ' power animals" tO question the lmlts 0 ta . T e SC 00 or "toning sounds iS fantasy-prone pseudosci- iS one tributary in a much wider movement Of entific nonsense. Professor Neil Greenberg, an PTSD specialists who believe body-oriented screwed NEWSWEEK 29 APR 比 07 , 2017

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