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Resilience project (a belated apology)

By Joel Jacobsen

Cutting-edge research in the last 20 years has finally proven Freud right, at least in his original insight.  Early childhood experiences can alter a person's entire life course, and even lifespan.  Children who suffer adverse experiences – including neglect or abuse, but also death of a parent, poverty, or parents' divorce – exhibit changes in their blood chemistry and brain structure that only in the past few years has become measureable by medical technology.  Long-term studies on huge populations show a strong, proportional relationship between the number of adverse experiences in a child's early life and cardiovascular disease, some forms of cancer, hallucinations, obesity, depression, IV drug use, autoimmune diseases, sexually-risky behaviors and suicide attempts...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on April 14, 2010 (boomark / email).