349: Borderline Personality Disorder + Developmental Trauma with Dr. Janina Fisher

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Sep 23, 2022

Dr. Janina Fisher explores the link between complex trauma and Borderline Personality Disorder, highlighting trauma treatment strategies like TIST. She advocates for a compassionate approach towards trauma, emphasizing the importance of self-acceptance and integration for healing. The podcast also discusses the impact of COVID-19 on children and online training collaboration, offering resources for accessing Dr. Fisher's books and trainings.

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State Hospital Work

Dr. Fisher was hired by state hospitals to help patients diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder who weren't responding to traditional treatments.
These hospitals were a last resort for chronically suicidal and self-harming patients, many of whom had extensive trauma histories.

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Self-Destructive Behavior

Dr. Fisher theorized that self-destructive behaviors in trauma survivors are trauma responses, not a personality disorder.
She viewed these behaviors as a fragmented self at war with itself, driven by a fight response misdirected inwards.

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Parts Work Success

Dr. Fisher used a structural dissociation model, teaching clients to see their impulses as "parts."
Clients quickly grasped this concept, recognizing their internal struggles as separate parts instead of a flawed self.

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Welcome back to Therapy Chat! This week host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C interviews a very special guest, Dr. Janina Fisher! Laura has admired Janina Fisher's work for years. In this conversation you will hear Janina discuss the relationship between complex trauma and the Borderline Personality Disorder diagnosis, as well as how her training method, Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST) can heal attachment and trauma wounds. Whether or not you're a therapist, you won't want to miss this important and interesting discussion!

Janina Fisher, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and a former instructor, Harvard Medical School. An international expert on the treatment of trauma, she is an Advisory Board member of the Trauma Research Foundation. Dr. Fisher is the author of 'Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Self-Alienation' (2017), 'Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma: a Workbook for Survivors and Therapists' (2021), and 'The Living Legacy Instructional Flip Chart' (2022). She is best known for her work on integrating mindfulness-based and somatic interventions into trauma treatment.

Resources
Dr. Janina Fisher's website - www.janinafisher.com

Buy Janina Fisher's Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors book on Amazon here.

Buy Janina Fisher's Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma: a Workbook for Survivors and Therapists on Amazon here.

Special offer for therapists:

Attend a free webinar presented by Dr. Janina Fisher on October 7, 2022. In this live webinar, Healing the Shame of our Fragmented Selves, Janina will address helping clients who struggle with shame and self-loathing.

As a special gift, when you register for the free webinar, you’ll also get access to two one-hour trainings from Dr. Fisher so you can learn the foundation of her Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment model right away:

Healing the Fragmented Self After Trauma. Understanding trauma-related fragmentation as a survival response is vital to all therapists working with victims of abuse, domestic violence, or even combat.
Stabilizing the Unstable. Dr. Fisher shows you how to work with severely traumatized individuals with self-destructive and addictive behaviors, eating disorders, and suicidality. You will gain critical insights into working with these clients and feel more confident knowing how to serve them.

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