Dr. Andrea DePetris: Staying Regulated at Custody Exchanges

The word trigger gets used casually enough that it has stopped meaning one thing. Dr. Andrea DePetris separates two uses of it. In the trauma field it means a stimulus that activates the trauma memory network, where a person feels as though the danger is happening right now. In everyday use it means something in the present activating something unresolved from the past, often tied to early attachment. Dr. Andrea DePetris is a clinical psychologist with an academic appointment at Yale School o...