Our bodies are not only alive – they are lived!

Caring for the whole person has been my passion – so I have undertaken training in grief and loss and trauma to balance the biomedical training I had as an undergraduate. Science made a monumental historical mistake when it separated the mind and the body for study. Professions have grown up around that artificial divide.  

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Dr Johanna Lynch has had a chapter included in a new mental health textbook launched this month, entitled Humanising Mental Health in Australia: a guide to trauma-informed approaches. Her chapter, co-authored with eminent Norwegian GP researcher Anna Luise Kirkengen, is entitled Biology and Experience Intertwined: trauma, neglect and the physical body.

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