Collaborating With the Fortress Around Early Childhood Trauma: A Depth Psychotherapy Process

What is it about?

This article discusses a depth psychotherapy process that deepens experience beyond a biomedical model of managing manifest symptoms and behavior in especially, the adult individual suffering from a history of early childhood trauma, to relating from an authentic core self so necessary for living a creative life and engaging in healthy relationships. Three necessary approaches are described including creating a safe and secure space, building a trusting therapeutic relationship and including the body in the therapeutic process.

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Why is it important?

The current biomedical model of psychiatry and psychology often move the individual away from symptoms and behaviors through overdiagnosing and overmedicating, that may be a calling from deep within the core self needing to be heard. Numbing suffering may resolve complaints in the short term, but long term effects continue finding an alternative mode of expression through what can lead to more serious mental health illness and/or physical illness. Understanding and relating to defense systems is also addressed that tend to form a fortress around feelings and developmental needs that are necessary to make contact with and meet if possible.