TRAUMA AND ATTACHMENT: THEORETICAL AND TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR AN ARTICULATED INTERVENTION OF ADLERIAN PSYCHODYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY (APPs)

Authors

  • Elisabetta Cairo

Keywords:

trauma, sensorimotor psychotherapy, attachment, memory, neurobiology, body, complex treatment

Abstract

In recent years the scientific literature concerning Trauma highlighted the neurophysiological correlates related to traumatic experiences, the influences it can have on the development of Self-Life Style and what role playing sensory-bodily and emotional experiences in the treatment of individual mental suffering resulting from that experience. Trauma is configured as an experience that breaks the continuity of the Self and blocks the development of Social Feeling, which aggregation instance of Self parts: the inability to integrate the sensory-bodily-emotional components blocks the process of experience signification rendering the individual incapable of organizing a representation of the himself experience. This paper intends to present a proposal for an adlerian psychodynamic psychotherapeutic treatment for individuals precociously traumatized that takes account of the latest techniques in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder which involved primarily aspects of non-integration of sensory-bodily-emotional Self vision and secondarily on development of the meaning

Published

2018-06-30