System Speak: Complex Trauma and Dissociative Disorders Guest: Doris D'Hooghe
Nov 3, 2025
Doris D'Hooghe, an experienced Belgian psychotraumatologist and founder of the Trauma Center in Belgium, shares valuable insights on attachment and trauma. She discusses how intergenerational trauma impacts parenting and how unresolved issues distort attachment relationships. Doris highlights the concept of unseen attachment trauma and the neurologic effects of relational trauma. She also emphasizes the importance of integrating trauma healing with empowerment and views resilience as an innate quality that helps individuals recover and thrive.
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Trauma Is Largely Intergenerational
- Doris D'Hooghe argues that trauma is universal and often intergenerational, rooted in historical dehumanizing treatment of children.
- She links unresolved parental trauma to biological, cellular, and behavioral transmission across generations.
Educate To Break Intergenerational Patterns
- Educate broadly about trauma: provide psychoeducation and neuroeducation to parents, clinicians, and communities.
- Sensitize people to disguised trauma and encourage working on unresolved histories to reduce intergenerational transmission.
Do Your Own Work Before Caring For Others
- Do your own inner work if you are a clinician or parent to avoid replicating unsafe attachment dynamics.
- Examine projections and unresolved inner 'perpetrator' parts before forming relationships of care.