Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation

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The book has been helpful for me personally so far. But also - wish this had been available to me when I was an educator, especially when I was working in a high-trauma community. I wish these concepts were available to all caretakers and people in social work fields such as education. Therapists feel helpless and ineffective, and clients feel more shame and hopelessness. TIST changes all that. TIST is informed by concepts and techniques from sensory motor psychotherapy, IFS, and clinical hypnotherapy. The process is more gentle and requires less of clients, and the response has been extremely positive. I am in love with Janina’s model. It is body-based, collaborative, and anti-oppressive. It has helped me develop more compassion for my clients’ parts, my own parts, and family members’ parts too. A learning process, it is true, that should never have had to have happened, but nevertheless something that is in itself a positive.

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Because of this, despite your best efforts you can never treat the root of their challenges: the legacyJanina Fisher’s unique blending of IFS ‘parts’ with sensorimotor and mindfulness-based therapy is a terrific enhancement to psychodynamic work. Although grounded in structural dissociation theory and trauma treatment, Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors offers insights that will enrich the knowledge-base of therapists treating higher-functioning as well as deeply traumatized individuals. I recommend this remarkable book to all psychotherapists, especially psychodynamic ones, who will discover an extraordinary opportunity to expand their clinical horizons." It would be best to work on it with a therapeut who is familiarized with this concept but unfortunately they aren't easy to find depending on where you live. Dissociation is particularly essential when the abuse happens at the hands of a primary caregiver who is also responsible for providing food, shelter, and physical protection. In such a situation, the one experiencing abuse has to learn to function in a dual way, seeing the same person both as a threat and a source of essential goods. Codependent behavior could be a response to early traumatic experiences, and you can make significant strides in overcoming it. READ MORE Kenneth A. Frank, PhD, Psychotherapy Integration Training Program, National Institute for Psychotherapies

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The human brain is a remarkable machine, refined by millions of years of evolution for survival. Perhaps its most remarkable feature is its ability to learn and adapt to different environments. One of the most extreme, but far from rare, situations that humans have to develop coping mechanisms for is abuse at the hands of a caregiver. IAPT Practitioners, Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Social Workers, Psychiatrists, Nurses and other mentalIt will take you to new places and enable you to reach for your clients and find them when they cannot find themselves. Enjoy!" In this respect, therapy bears a close relationship to philosophy and many religious traditions, in particular those based on meditation and self-reflection. Mindfulness, of course, is the most cited example of a psychological technique that developed from a religious (specifically a Buddhist) source, but the observation applies more widely. Adding to the challenge is the fact that many traumatised clients present with overlapping symptoms Dissociation — the fracturing of the personality into different parts — is the easiest, and perhaps the only possible, way of doing this.

Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming

PDF / EPUB File Name: Healing_the_Fragmented_Selves_of_Trauma_Su_-_Fisher_Janina.pdf, Healing_the_Fragmented_Selves_of_Trauma_Su_-_Fisher_Janina.epub In this training, you will learn exactly how trauma drives survival responses that re-create the felt sense that these are still desperate times requiring desperate measures, leading to impulsive attempts to fight or flee. TIST provides an easier and more effective way of working with any clients who still suffer from these and other effects of trauma. Best of all, TIST also prevents burn-out by decreasing the stress on YOU to “save the day.” Wow, where to even begin! This course has helped on all levels — navigating my own reactions (from my own parts) to client presentations and interactions; understanding the complex layers of fragmented and traumatized clients' internal landscapes; learning about more complex presentations involving clients' parts; more clearly understanding how to apply TIST in sessions (especially how to facilitate un-blending and internal parts work toward repair of ruptures and healing legacies of traumatic environments)." The hotel is close to Gloucester Road station and within a mile of Kensington Palace, Hyde Park and I love the de-pathologizing of trauma symptoms through Janina's IFS-influenced approach. Being very spiritually myself, I have found myself at odds with the diagnostic/ medically influenced view of human behavior as pathological, bad or wrong. IFS and Janina's approach is such a breath of fresh air. In my younger days I was terrified of working with certain diagnosis, ie, BPD. Using this approach is so affirming and gentle, true and real that I now find working with this population easier and so much more effective.

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Some might think this inclines clinical practice to iatrogenic practice but NO, STOP. This is only meant to be used (as it says) with people with trauma related parts, not the general population (duh!)