78. Dr. Colin Ross: Psychological Trauma and Its Consequences

Dr. Colin Ross is an internationally renowned clinician, researcher, author, and lecturer in the field of dissociation, and trauma-related disorders. He is the founder and President of The Colin A. Ross Institute for Psychological Trauma. Colin completed medical school at the University of Alberta and his psychiatry training at the University of Manitoba. He is a Past President of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation and is the author of over 250 papers and 35 books.  He has spoken widely throughout North America, Europe, China, Malaysia, Australia, and New Zealand. 

We chat about... 

• What inspired Dr. Colin Ross to become a psychiatrist
• His thoughts on the lack of trauma training in schools
• What's wrong with the current mental health field
• The role trauma plays in the presentation of mental illness
• Colin's thoughts on the chemical imbalance theory
• Whether or not schizophrenia is a genetic brain disease
• Auditory and visual hallucinations and how they're related to trauma
• How different cultures view voices as either good or bad
• The role voices play in Dissociative Identity Disorder
• Dr. Colin Ross' thoughts on the core motive of why voices want a person dead
• What it means to dissociate 
• Colin's approach to healing trauma in a nutshell 
• Electrodes being implanted in the brain

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