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Trauma Responses Are Social
- Fight, flight, freeze, fawn and connect are all survival strategies for responding to trauma.
- These behaviours operate at individual, family and societal levels and shape wider social dynamics.
Connection As A Trauma Strategy
- The 'connect' response describes seeking others for support under threat, often observed in women.
- Connecting becomes collective action and mutual comfort rather than an isolated self-regulation tactic.
Historical Link Between Fawning And Authoritarianism
- Fraad links historical German fawning after WWI to authoritarian family patterns and political followings.
- She suggests mass appeasement in crisis helped enable followers of authoritarian leaders like Hitler.