Today’s episode outlines the concept of Gestalt Memory in the context of trauma, particularly for gestalt language processors (GLPs). The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, argues that for GLPs, trauma is not stored in linear, manageable pieces but as a simultaneous, compressed whole—a “system” of sensation, meaning, and relational context that floods the body upon recall. This perspective challenges the dominant “analytic” model of memory processing, which assumes that healing requires breaking down experience into sequential parts. Dr. Hoerricks contends that the intensity and nonlinearity of the memory flood is often misframed as overreaction or dysregulation; instead, it represents the density of meaning that must be slowly decompressed into language, a process that requires patience and relational safety rather than forced articulation.
Here’s the link to the source article: https://open.substack.com/pub/autside/p/whole-memory-processing-when-the
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