Childhood Trauma Changes the Brain

Shavaun Scott
3 min readDec 13, 2021

Consequences can be hard to overcome, but there is hope

Photo by Zhivko Minkov on Unsplash

The following is excerpted from my book The Minds of Mass Killers: Understanding and Interrupting the Pathway to Violence (McFarland, 2021). Available through all booksellers.

How the brain adapts to trauma

The fight/flight response is the nervous system’s natural response to a perceived threat and…

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Shavaun Scott

Psychotherapist and writer, exploring uncommon bravery and shining light on the human experience.