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Jesse W. Collins II

File:Jessesphoto.jpgI. Introduction: An Overview of the Contributions and Works of Jesse W. Collins II This introduction overviews the original contributions made by Jesse W. Collins II to the understanding, treatment and social management of psychological trauma and its effects upon individuals, relationships and systems, the latter to include other than families: crisis management organizations, communities, nations and civilizations. That contribution is codified into the following topical headingsA. General: Etiotropic Theory of Trauma Management ─ Definition Through Contrast B. Etiotropic Operational Differences from Other Models C. Etiotropic Operational Remedies and Methods D. National Security for Consensually Managed Societies E. First Etiotropic Depiction of the Neuro Endocrine Substrate of Trauma Etiology F. Drug-Alcohol and Pharmacological Use Influences on Molecular Learning G. Human Ontology Codified a. Theory of the Components of the Neuro-Endocrine Substrate of Human b. Etiotropic Human Ontological Theory Purposes c. Strategic Human Ontological Management™ H. Western Civilization Trauma-Caused Learning Disorder TheoryA. Overview General: Etiotropic Theory of Trauma Management – Definition Through Contrast Beginning in 1976, Jesse W. Collins II initiated development of an integrative combined clinical treatment and organizational, social and national defensive (against forced identity change – the use of terrorism by adversaries) management model that shifts the focus upon and solution to psychological trauma and its individual, interactional and systemic effects from the behavioral symptoms (Nosotropic) clinical, organizational management, and social (laymen) perspective, definition and remedy to one with a definable and addressable etiology. Collins named the etiology-defined and -focused integrative approach in 1989 The Integrated Trauma Management System™(footnote), changing the title in 1990 to Etiotropic Trauma Management™ (ETM)(footnote). The author posits that the Etiotropic perspective and method is inherently completely reconcilable, resolvable or curable of psychological trauma and its problem (including behavioral and systemic) manifestations and that the Nosotropic perspective and attempted remedy are not only inherently incapable of addressing psychological trauma effectively and efficiently as does the Etiotropic approach, but that the Nosotropic model becomes part and parcel an expansion of the problems attending psychological trauma. In all his works(footnote), Collins opines that the Nosotropic approach compounds trauma by confounding both the perspectives and solutions into a paradoxically operating but protective sequela that can and does, depending upon the exogenous variables influencing the defensive structure, lead to doom – no effective remedy and an attendant management perspective hallmarked by the individual, managerial and social collective experience of futility. That despondency influences clinical, crisis management and public perceptions to the extent that a populace is rendered incapable of preventing otherwise preventable traumatic events (contrived and caused by perpetrators). The Etiotropic approach changes those experiences to conform perspectives to the opposite expectation: perpetrator caused traumatic events as they are known in this era are and should be preventable. Local communities and nations, respectively, can be readily secured against the uses of violent crime and such tactics as terrorism. B. Overview: Etiotropic Operational Differences from Other Models The Etiotropic model redefines psychological trauma and its individual, interactional and systemic consequences into a dramatically different management paradigm from that which has been presented by Behaviorists in Western Civilization history to both clinical and popular cultures. One difference is that trauma’s etiology is shown to exist in a sequela of change in existential identity (values, beliefs, images and other realities) rather than as just a change in behavior. Understanding the sequela affecting identity and how it can be approached through the Etiotropic perspective and what must not be applied is Collins’key to addressing psychological trauma consistently successfully. That “not” initiates and emphasizes the drama by screening out applications of popular Cognitive Behavioral Therapies, Behavioral Therapy, interpretative analytical therapies, pharmacological therapies and unstructured psychodynamic psychotherapies. ETM’s interpretation and demonstration of those models as impediments to trauma’s complete resolution creates the drama. C. Overview: Etiotropic Operational Remedies and Methods Collins’ different approach was developed in government (footnote) and JCAHO monitored clinical conditions over ten years and then applied to organizational and cultural structures over an additional seven years. The processes’ developments, implementations and documentations have encompassed a total of thirty-five years. The work is codified with three nomenclatures (headings) that demonstrate how to Etiotropically address psychological trauma at several levels. They and their development periods include1. Trauma Resolution Therapy (TRT)™ ─ Clinical individual, interactional and systemic treatment for both near and long term trauma with Trauma Resolution Therapy (TRT)™ (1979-1985). 2. Etiotropic Trauma Management (ETM)™ ─ for the address of organizational management (systemic) effects of trauma’s systemic influences (organizational development and management-emphasizing crisis management, national executive and military operations) (1982-1989). 3. Strategic Ontological Management™ ─ This model has national security ramifications ─ for the address of perpetrator contrived and induced psychological trauma through the cause and imposition of guerrilla war caused and terror-oriented events (1990-1991).D. Overview: National Security for Consensually Managed Societies The thesis' basis is that aggressive systems impose trauma-causing (terrorist – guerrilla warfare) events in order to depreciate the individual and collective will of consensually managed societies. The events depreciate existential aspects of individual and collective identity of the targeted polity. That depreciation correlates to the simultaneous depreciation of will. Collins opines that restoring identity at incremental levels – for those individuals bearing the brunt of the terrorist act ─ restores identity at mass or collective levels. Restoring identity at all stratifications restores individual and collective will strengthening both against exogenous attempts to undermine them. E. Overview: First Etiotropic Depiction of the Neuro-Endocrine Substrate of Trauma Etiology Between 1991-1992, Jesse W. Collins produced the first description of trauma etiology’s Neuro-Endocrine substrate. Footnote title In that book, asserts that trauma’s etiology is underpinned neurologically by the following (summary). The phylogenetic brain integrative process beginning of the integrative molecular activity is housed in the interplays between both Long Term Potentiation and Long Term Depression of synaptic processes, the molecular storage units for learning and memory. That activity is in turn facilitated by the HAPA (Hypothalamus - Adrenal - Pituitary - Axis) or behaviorally termed Stress Response. During neural and endocrine activity stimulated by the changes confronting the identity stored in the synapse, the neurotransmitter systems, for example and principally, the Noradrenergic and Opioid systems accord the brain the plasticity necessary for the changes in synaptic LTP and LTD to take place. Attending the molecular learning process, Noradrenergic modulated (of Opioid system) bindings or not (failures to bind) on predominantly Opioid post synaptic membrane receptors presents behaviorally as emotional pain, summarized here as various and cyclically presenting levels of grief, the intensity of which is determined by the amount of morphological LTP and LTD required during the brain integration effort. Thus emotional pain experienced in response to loss (for example, changes in reality to identity - loss of a loved one) is fundamentally instrumental to molecular and thus behavioral learning. To the other side of learning where expansion of capacity to Be occurs, the same neurotransmitter systems facilitate, but in conjunction with others like the Serotonergic and Endorphin systems support the integrative activity. Twenty years ago, fifty differing neurotransmitters were identified as interacting with the brain's integrative functionings. There are more recognized today. F. Overview: Drug-Alcohol and Pharmacological Use Influences on Molecular Learning Psychoactive substances including alcohol, drugs like cannabis (illegal) and pharmacological therapies (psychoactive medicines such as anti-depressants and pain medicines) dramatically influence molecular learning, usually adversely. That influence then interferes with both the resolution of trauma otherwise available to the unfettered molecular learning capacity of the human consciousness and rational thought (the use of reason and logic) for decision making. Remove the substances and the brain will, after sufficient periods necessary for restructuring of the synaptic functioning based upon the individual’s ontology, restore the molecular learning capacity. Decision making can be restored to its natural capacity to function rationally (through the use of reason and logic). G. Overview: Human Ontology Codified In the last decade of the three plus that Collins spent addressing the various stratifications of psychological trauma and its myriad effects, he addressed the issue of human ontology in an attempt to codify it; in this use of “ontology” the term means “essence.”1. Theory of its Components and Neuro-Endocrine SubstrateIn Collins’s interpretation, individual ontology functions out of the brain's phylogenetic capacity to integrate the organism not just for survival but for expanding itself, making itself more. That ontology is comprised of several elements: molecular learning represented in the neural modulation of synaptic underpinnings (substrate) of existential components of identity; caring; systemic use, application and implementation of caring; will; creativity; functional compartmentalization of memory storage; feeling states and individual emotions; and the ability to reason during and for decision making. Simplifying for this summary, "identity" in this explanation - definition of human ontology (again, essence) refers to values, beliefs, images and other realities and with an emphasis on moral values, etc."2. Human Ontological Theory PurposesThe Etiotropic perspective of human individual ontology and attendant brain integrative process serves several individual and social management purposes. It:a. Orients individual and social management focus on human ontology as an integral and addressable partner with human behavior; the latter is de-emphasized as the only or otherwise argued by some to be scientifically valid approach to management of human beings, which is the opinion of the Behaviorism theory and approach to such managements. Moreover, Behaviorism as either a life-coping (with changes- traumatic interruptions to identity) mechanism if imposed as the predominant management construct, which is the case for controlled social system operations, can not only be a narrow and inaccurate interpretation of the human consciousness, but the behavioral model, even when mollified with always updating, re-adapting and reconfiguring Cognitive-Behavioral precepts and concepts, can impair human understanding and be destructive to its functioning. Worse, it accords a pseudo-psychosocial air of scientific guidance to human understanding and management that albeit having some value given some organizational goals as they are met in business enterprise and military operations, the applications as determiners of how the complete human consciousness functions add more than false echoes. Behaviorism philosophy is patently inaccurate in its assumptions and representations of how the brain functions at the essence of its attendant mind — its ontology. Hence the need for managerially focusing upon the latter.b. Demonstrates the immutable linkage and thus available remedies for both restoring and defending individual and collective identity by restoring and strengthening will against untoward and inimical political methods (emphasizing the use of offensive trauma management models like guerrilla warfare and terrorism) otherwise intended for undermining will, to include both its individual and collective manifestations and uses.c. Provides a neuro-biological support for individually oriented approaches to self-government offered by consensually based social management political models.3. Strategic Human Ontological Management™H. Western Civilization Trauma Caused Learning Disorder Theory The Etiotropic Trauma Management author argues that psychological trauma has caused from its inception Western Civilization philosophers much discord by creating a defective learning model, itself an adjustment response to trauma. The adaptation has adversely skewed those thinkers’ understandings and conclusions regarding humankind, how its brain and mind work most effectively, and the perspectives of its functional capacities and development. Operating out of the trauma-affected thought and management models, Western Civilization remedies are precluded by those effects from solving social and to include international problems pertaining to trauma causing events. Where trauma may and does inspire necessary survival responses pertaining to defense and protections, the same trauma can and usually also causes irrationality in both individual and collective decision-making. Remove the noted traumas’ adverse effects Etiotropically, says Collins, and restore civilization’s rational management system to reasonable effectiveness.(footnote) An additional benefit of the Etiotropic removal of traumatic effects upon what would otherwise be expected to be reasonable and rational thought is the expectation that otherwise preventable trauma causing events like intra-nation (local) violent crime and international hegemony that underpins war between nation states would be routinely preventable.(footnote) II. Historical Development Environment that led to the Referenced Etiotropic and Strategic Human Ontological Management Theory and ModalitiesA. Systemic influences ─ a differing perspective B. Individual Trauma Resolution Therapy™ (TRT) Parallel Influences C. Individual Trauma Resolution Therapy™ (TRT) Parallel Influences D. Individual Trauma Resolution Therapy™ (TRT) Parallel InfluencesIII. ETM TRT Training and Certification System IV. Vita: Life, Education, Employment and Heritage V. Primary Personal Experience, Educational and Military Combat Influences on the Etiotropic Trauma Management™ (ETM) and Strategic Human Ontological Management™ Models’ Developments VI. Publications VII. Independent Studies, Evaluations, and Third Party-Public References