After 9/11, thousands of mental health professionals from across
the country assembled in Manhattan to help handle the almost
certain avalanche of traumatized New Yorkers. Curiously, it never
came. While plenty of people did seek mental health counseling
after 9/11, the numbers were nowhere near expected. As renowned
psychologist George Bonanno argues, psychiatrists failed to predict
the response to 9/11 because our model of trauma is wrong.
Psychiatrists only study clinically traumatized people, and over
time this skewed sample has led us to believe that trauma was the
natural response to stress. But what about all the people who never
come in for help? Bonanno has spent his career studying how people
respond to potentially traumatic events, whether or not they show
symptoms of PTSD. In TK, he lays out a bold new model of the
origins and trauma, and how we can more effectively treat it.
Bonanno's research has shown that the natural response to stressful
situations is not trauma but resilience. Most people are, by
default, able to cope without suffering long-term consequences.
This is important because assuming that people are traumatized when
they aren't can actually risk traumatizing them. TK explains what
makes us resilient, why people sometimes aren't, and what really
helps us work through trauma. of the book draws on Bonanno's
pioneering studies on trauma in war veterans, car crash victims,
assault and abuse survivors, and even the victims of 9/11. His most
crucial finding is that resilience does not come from one essential
coping strategy, as other books argue. Resilience is actually a
process in which we actively explore, assess, and adapt the
strategies that allow us to engage with a situation. Trauma happens
when our natural systems of resilience falter, and Bonanno develops
a method for restoring resilience called the flexibility sequence,
a series of strategies designed to help us find new coping
strategies when we find ourselves at a loss. Bonanno's first book,
The Other Side of Sadness, showed that the oft-touted notion that
there are "five stages" of bereavement ignored how real people
grieve. The book spoke not only to his fellow psychologists, but to
thousands of people who needed to better understand their own
experiences of loss. In the same tradition, TK reclaims the study
of trauma from outdated theorizing and puts it in the context of
people's real experiences, because we can only understand how to
heal from trauma once we understand how humans actually deal with
it.
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