Alison Miller
It is more the understanding of what this abuse is about that therapists have had to study in private, not the techniques we use. There are many tried and proven trauma therapy techniques which are effective with such survivors, such as EMDR and fractionated abreaction. As we share information with one another, we are gaining understanding of these abuses. As we gain understanding of dissociative disorders, we learn how to work with complex personality systems. The Top DD study is assessing the effectiveness of such work.
Pretty well all sound schools of therapy teach us not to use suggestive techniques, so we work with what our clients provide to us; we don't tell them what they have experienced. It is up to the survivor or client to determine whether what is coming into his or her mind is real, not up to the therapist.
Pretty well all sound schools of therapy teach us not to use suggestive techniques, so we work with what our clients provide to us; we don't tell them what they have experienced. It is up to the survivor or client to determine whether what is coming into his or her mind is real, not up to the therapist.
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I am an experienced therapist and recently started treating a woman who had been ritually abused. Is there a protocal in EMDR for this? I will buy your book. I believe this woman and three siblings were abused as well . They live behind a wall of silence. The sister disclosed to me that she was ritually abused and that she remembers graphically what happened. She explained that her sister experienced body memories.
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Oct 30, 2015 07:24AM · flag