Pete Walker is a "general practitioner" who has a private practice in Berkeley, California, in the serene Claremont Hotel neighborhood. He has been working as a counselor, lecturer, writer and group leader for thirty-five years, and as a trainer, supervisor and consultant of other therapists for 20 years.Pete Walker is a "general practitioner" who has a private practice in the Rockridge neighborhood of the San Francisco East Bay Area. He specializes in helping adults who were traumatized in childhood, especially those whose repeated exposure to abuse and/or neglect left them with the symptoms of Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder [Cptsd].source: http://www.pete-walker.comPete has also experienced Complex PTSD.
Was originally planning to make a musical film starring The Sex Pistols called "The Star Is Dead"; the project got postponed after the group split up.
Son of Syd Walker
Mother was a chorus girl.
Made TV commercials in the mid-60s.
To cut down on the budget, most of his night scenes were shot during the day in Day for night mode.
After directing House of the Long Shadows , he decided to retire from filmmaking. He owns a couple of cinemas around England called Picturedome.
Cast actress Sheila Keith in five of his films.
David McGillivray wrote the scripts for four of Walkers movies.: House of Whipcord , Frightmare , House of Mortal Sin , and Schizo .
A music producer and guitarist formerly with the Perth band "Bakery", he often works with Don Walker , although they are not related.
All I wanted to do was create a bit of mischief.
Perfectionism is the unparalleled defense for emotionally abandoned children. The existential unattainability of perfection saves the child from giving up, unless or until, scant success forces him to retreat into the depression of a dissociative disorder, or launches him hyperactively into an incipient conduct disorder. Perfectionism also provides a sense of meaning and direction for the powerless and unsupported child. In the guise of self-control, striving to be perfect offers a simulacrum of a sense of control. Self-control is also safer to pursue because abandoning parents typically reserve their severest punishment for children who are vocal about their negligence.
I am continuously struck by how frequently the various thought processes of the inner critic trigger overwhelming emotional flashbacks. This is because the PTSD-derived inner critic weds shame and self-hate about imperfection to fear of abandonment, and mercilessly drive the psyche with the entwined serpents of perfectionism and endangerment. Recovering individuals must learn to recognize, confront and disidentify from the many inner critic processes that tumble them back in emotional time to the awful feelings of overwhelming fear, self-hate, hopelessness and self-disgust that were part and parcel of their original childhood abandonment. .
