What Personality Type Am I?: A Brain-Based Guide to Personality and Relationships by Hughes Gerald & Hughes Gerald

Author:Hughes, Gerald & Hughes, Gerald [Hughes, Gerald]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13: Effects of Trauma on Personality

In this chapter, we’re going to continue our look at trauma and the effects of traumatic experience on personality. Specifically, we’re going to look at the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of people affected by trauma and the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of those who are neurologically sympathetic dominant and/or neurologically stimulation avoiders.

To say that a different way, we have two distinct groups: one group whose thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are the result of traumatic experience; and another group whose thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are the result of their natural or neurological personality. The challenge here is that both groups can appear to have the same personality.

I cannot stress this enough. By almost any standard, from popular personality assessments like the MBTI and DISC to psychological assessments like the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT), the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), and the Rotter Incomplete Sentence Test.

Here’s the point I’m belaboring. You have almost identical behaviors with completely different sources: different causes and, therefore, very different solutions.

This is a huge challenge, not only for individuals, but for coaches, counselors, teachers, therapists: virtually anyone hoping to assist others in affecting positive change in their lives. For those diagnosed with PTSD, you have distinct thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that were acquired due to traumatic events.

Conversely, you have an entire population with very similar thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, but those thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are the result of neurological dominance: they are hard-wired and part of that person’s neurological personality.

If, and I emphasize the word, “if”, if a behavior is the result of an event or series of events, you, as a coach, counselor, or therapist, must use therapies appropriate to traumatic experience: whether Neuro-linguistics, Miltonian or CBT.

However, if those behaviors are the result of neurological preferences, those standard therapeutic methods are, for all practical purposes, useless and dangerous. Like every other psychological issue or behavioral change, you must know if you’re working with event-based behaviors or neurological-based behaviors.

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