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Collaborating With the Fortress Around Early Childhood Trauma: A Depth Psychotherapy Process
1Katherine May, PMHCNS-BC, is a Depth Psychotherapist, The Center for Depth Psychotherapy, PLC USA, Winchester, Virginia, USA.
Purpose:
A depth psychotherapy process is a deepening of experience facilitating access into a fortress of body and mind defenses that aims to protect although may imprison the adult survivor of early childhood trauma.
Conclusions:
When psychotherapy moves beyond managing manifest symptoms and behavior, individuals have an opportunity to connect with their authentic self and experience wholeness in their personality and relationships.
Practice Implications:
A theoretical and practical approach including the therapeutic frame, therapeutic alliance, and body psychotherapy attempts to collaborate with a fortress to encourage its cooperation in the release of its captive.
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