C.A. Childress, Psy.D.

Coping with the Complex Trauma of Pandemic, Anxiety, and Social Isolation

  • Pandemic: Grief & Loss
    Pandemic is an attachment trauma, there will be grief and loss in abundance.  Grief and loss is regulated through our attachment networks.  Pandemic is terrible in grief and loss.  It is tragedy of sadness for everyone, rippling everywhere. The home-front…
  • God’s Work
    I heard Governor Cuomo today refer to the medical workers, the doctors and nurses and respiratory therapists, as doing God’s work, and noting the season. There are archetypal undercurrents. The threat is a bug, not even alive, a virus, a…
  • The Horseman of Pandemic
    James Hillman makes a strong argument for the archetypal organization of our day-to-day experience.  Our entire psychological and emotional experience occurs within a brain, and as a result acquires the underlying structure of the brain’s organization into the very fabric…