Desensitization Quotes

• Desensitization: helping patients become less reactive to certain emotions and sensations. But is this the correct goal? Maybe the issue is not desensitization but integration: putting the traumatic event into its proper place in the overall arc of one’s life.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Goal
  • Emotions
  • Traumatic Events

• Hypersensitized to her memories of the past and that the best treatment would be some form of desensitization.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Memories
  • Treatment
  • Desensitization