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Dr. Ivan Gulas brings a dual perspective to trauma, as both survivor and clinician. A childhood survivor of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, he personally understands the lasting impact of trauma and the path to recovery. These experiences, and his later anxiety reactions, sparked a lifelong inquiry into how trauma reshapes the brain's systems of threat assessment and emotional regulation.Dr. Gulas, Ph.D., ABPP, is a Board-Certified Clinical Psychologist who completed his graduate training at Dartmouth College and Ohio University and his clinical internship at Beth Israel Hospital / Harvard Medical School. For over 20 years, he held a faculty appointment at Harvard Medical School and served as an attending staff member at several Harvard-affiliated medical centers and private inpatient hospitals, while maintaining a private practice in Boston. His clinical work spans more than fifty years, beginning with Vietnam veterans in 1973, before PTSD was formally recognized as a diagnosis in 1980.His clinical practice encompassed a broad range of therapeutic modalities. Starting from psychoanalytic and psychodynamic approaches, his work evolved to include Rational-Emotive Therapy, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, hypnosis, and biofeedback. Later, he expanded his expertise to neuropsychological assessments and consulting.In the 1990s, Dr. Gulas pioneered access to brain imaging technology by designing and deploying the first mobile dedicated Brain SPECT imaging unit for clinical observation. SPECT research has since helped identify PTSD as a whole-person phenomenon affecting cognition, emotion, and behavior and altered brain functioning patterns.Drawing on decades of clinical experience evaluating and treating trauma survivors, Dr. Gulas presents an original unifying framework for understanding what PTSD is, how it develops, why it persists, and what recovery realistically entails.

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