Unit 3 – Video material
This unit’s videos move from the general impact of trauma into the specific clinical picture — building directly on what you’ve just read.
The first, from Dr. Gabor Maté, looks at trauma’s broader effects on a person’s sense of self, their relationships, and their view of the world — echoing the same reframe this course opened with back in Unit 1. The second, from Dr. Paula Tran at Stanford, walks through PTSD specifically: what qualifies as trauma, the four symptom clusters, and why symptoms vary so much between individuals. The third, from psychiatrist Dr. Tracey Marks, addresses a question worth sitting with directly — how PTSD and Complex PTSD actually differ, and why a “fractured self” often lies at the core of Complex PTSD in a way standard PTSD doesn’t quite capture.
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The three videos in this section go deeper into trauma than "Trauma and the Aftermath" had room for, each adding something different.
The first, from Dr. Bessel van der Kolk — author of "The Body Keeps the Score," which you'll find on this unit's Recommended Reading list — offers a genuinely moving, clinically grounded account of what trauma actually does to the body and mind, drawn from decades of direct work with survivors. The second is a clean, animated explainer that walks through the biology and diagnostic criteria you've already read about, useful as a visual reinforcement of the material. The third turns to something more practical: how PTSD is actually treated, and how to think about finding the right kind of therapeutic support if you or someone you know needed it.
As with everything else in this unit, this is real material about real psychological suffering — give yourself space to sit with it if anything lands close to home.
