It was Pete Walker, an M.A. in psychoanalysis,  who first coined the phrase emotional flashback to describe the gut-wrenching experience of reliving the helplessness and dissociation caused by trauma. In his book, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving, Walker describes many aspects of emotional flashbacks and how the inner critic holds people hostage. I shall … Continue reading The Connection Between Emotional Flashbacks and the Inner Critic