Changing The Odds

<p> <em>In Changing the Odds: A New Understanding of PTSD Dr. Ivan Gulas draws on more than fifty years of clinical practice-spanning psychoanalytic training cognitive-behavioral modalities neuropsychology and brain imaging-to introduce a unifying framework that reshapes how PTSD can be understood treated and successfully navigated.</em></p><p><em>Through vivid narrative clinical insight and neuroscience Dr. Gulas argues that trauma does more than produce fear. It shatters the brain's internal probability-assessment system-the quiet invisible mechanism that continuously evaluates risk and allows people to live without constant terror. Trauma forces an instant catastrophic recalibration: the brain proven wrong in a moment of mortal danger overcorrects toward hypervigilance and constant alarm.</em></p><p><em>The result is the condition we call PTSD: not a collection of symptoms but a disorder of miscalibrated threat assessment affecting memory emotion behavior and the body's survival systems. Through this lens intrusive memories avoidance hypervigilance triggers dissociation and emotional numbing become understandable responses to a system struggling to avoid ever being wrong about danger again.</em></p><p><em>This book is neither a treatment manual nor a self-help guide. Instead it opens a fiercely original window onto the unseen mechanisms that shape trauma and recovery. It explains why certain therapeutic approaches work why others falter and what recovery truly looks like: the gradual restoration of trust in a world that once proved catastrophically unsafe. Written for clinicians trauma survivors and families Changing the Odds offers clarity hope and a powerful new way of understanding the path to healing.</em></p>