FAWNING, DR. I. ClaytonFrom a clinical psychologist and expert in complex trauma recovery comes a powerful guide introducing fawning, an often overlooked piece of the fight flight freeze reaction to traumaexplaining what it is, why it happens, and how to help survivors regain their voice and sense of self. Most of us are familiar with the three Fs of traumaflight, fight, or freeze. But psychologists have identified a fourth, extremely common (yet little understood) fawning.