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The Embodied Trauma and Pain Lab
Tel Aviv University

We conduct research to elucidate how trauma shapes the ways individuals perceive and experience their bodies. We place particular emphasis on child maltreatment, peritraumatic and posttraumatic pain, and posttraumatic orientation to bodily signals.

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Research

In the Embodied Trauma and Pain Lab, we examine the short- and long-term implications of trauma for bodily functioning and experience. In particular, we aim to facilitate new insights into the complex links between peritraumatic bodily sensations and posttraumatic bodily manifestations, including peritraumatic pain and chronic pain.

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Building on the understanding that bodily experience is shaped within early interpersonal contexts, we study dyadic and intergenerational posttraumatic processes related to the perception and experience of the body.

Publications

   Peritraumatic pain in child maltreatment: a systematic literature review

Extensive research has been conducted on the link between trauma, child maltreatment (CM), and chronic pain. Although the risk of suffering from chronic pain among CM survivors has been established, much less is known about the experience of pain during CM incidents or whether such peritraumatic pain sensations are associated with later chronic pain. This scoping review was conducted to synthesize the existing literature on pain during and a short time following CM... read more

Trauma, Violence, & Abuse

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