Michael Scheeringa

This is the third in my trilogy of videos of I call the 3 Tucker Carlson questions. Answers from 17 of his guests are reviewed and then I give my answer to analyze the following question: Given the injection of woke, progressive liberal projects into American society, and the entrenched power of government and Big Tech supporting them, how will this end?

In this video, I use a compilation of clips from the Tucker Carlson Today show as a springboard to analyze the question: How to live in the new landscape of culture wars in America since 2020? Recorded July 2023.

In this video, I summarize and expand upon answers from guests on the Tucker Carlson Today show as a springboard to analyze, from a psychological and moral perspective, this question: Why did extreme, progressive Liberals suddenly become so influential and drag the country into so many divisive, woke policies in 2020? What, exactly, was the liberals motive for ramping up a raft of radical, in-your-face policies designed to force culture war on the rest of us? Recorded July 2023.

In this video, I analyze what is perhaps the best selling book in the history of psychiatry. Recorded September 2022. Danese, A., Moffitt, T. E., Arseneault, L., Bleiberg, B. A., Dinardo, P. B., Gandelman, S. B., . . . Caspi, A. (2017). The origins of cognitive deficits in victimized children: Implications for neuroscientists and clinicians. American Journal of Psychiatry, 174, 349-361. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.2016.16030333 DiGangi, J. A., Gomez, D., Mendoza, L., Jason, L. A., Keys, C. B., & Koenen, K. C. (2013). Pretrauma risk factors for posttraumatic stress disorder: A systematic review of the literature. Clinical Psychology Review, 33, 728-744. doi:10.1016/j.cpr.2013.05.002 Scheeringa MS (2021) Reexamination of diathesis stress and neurotoxic stress theories: A qualitative review of pre-trauma neurobiology in relation to posttraumatic stress symptoms. nternational Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research 30:e1864. doi: 10.1002/mpr.1864

In this video, I describe a universal process of how and why smart people can so easily believe things that aren’t true. Recorded July 2022.

In this video, I describe how Psychology Today censored my blog post about toxic stress and trauma-informed approaches. Recorded April 2022.

In this video from February 2022, I provide a brief overview of my new book, The Trouble With Trauma: The Search to Discover How Beliefs Become Facts. It was released March 1, 2022, published by Central Recovery Press.

In this video, I explain why “toxic stress” was invented and describe three examples in Baltimore, New Orleans, and California of how the notion of toxic stress was weaponized into a playbook for unprecedented expansions of social programs to support the culture of victimhood. Recorded February 2022.

In this video, childhood PTSD expert Dr. Michael Scheeringa uses his background from nearly 30 years of clinical and research work to explain why a proposed disorder that has no solid validity evidence, complex PTSD, has become so popular. What is it? Is there research to support it? How is it driven by ideology? Recorded January 2022.

In this video, childhood trauma expert Dr. Michael Scheeringa uses his background in neurobiology research to give the 30,000-foot view of the complicated toxic stress phenomenon. What is it? Is there research to support it? Why is it so popular?

In this video, trauma expert Dr. Michael Scheeringa describes the diagnosis and course of PTSD. A somewhat complicated syndrome explained clearly. The basics, based on research, minus the misinformation. Recorded December 2021.

In this video, childhood trauma expert Dr. Michael Scheeringa uses his three decades of research and clinical experience with children to describes the differences between child PTSD and adult PTSD. Recorded January 2022.

This video is a critique of attempts to change the meaning and outcome of psychological trauma. Trauma expert Dr. Michael Scheeringa describes the true definition of trauma and about unwise efforts from activist researchers to reshape the concept. Recorded December 2021.