scholarly journals Vulnerability in Facing the Covid-19 Pandemic in the Light of Relational Trauma

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Barbara Simonič ◽  
Christian Gostečnik ◽  
Tanja Repič Slavič ◽  
Saša Poljak Lukek ◽  
Robert Cvetek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Relational Trauma

Treating Family Relational Trauma: A Recursive Process Using a Decision Dialogue

2008 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARCIA SHEINBERG ◽  
FIONA TRUE
Keyword(s):  
Relational Trauma

Survival of the survivors; containment for the uncontained

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-66
Author(s):  
Rebecca Silvia Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Clinical Case ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Relational Trauma ◽  
Standard Mode

Video therapy can be a great help when seeing patients face to face is not possible, as has widely occurred due to the Covid-19 lockdown. We must unpack and fully understand video therapy as a type of practice, given that it is different from our standard mode of therapy. Through a specific clinical case, I will highlight a paradox of this type of therapy: namely, that the screen can act as an aid for the patient but an obstacle for the therapist. Specifically, its mediation can support emotionally coerced patients to express and contact their emotions better, whilst this same screen can act as an obstacle for the therapist who may struggle to contain the patient emotionally. The clinical case I will discuss is about Judy, a patient who suffered relational trauma from early childhood, with whom I struggled to contain emotionally in her first real connection with her feelings, which occurred through video therapy.

The Loss of the Self in Memory: Self-Referential Memory, Childhood Relational Trauma, and Dissociation

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-282
Author(s):  
Chui-De Chiu ◽  
Marieke S. Tollenaar ◽  
Cheng-Ta Yang ◽  
Bernet M. Elzinga ◽  
Tian-Yang Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Child Maltreatment ◽  
The Self ◽  
Stressful Situation ◽  
Mental Function ◽  
Moderate Correlation ◽  
Early Experiences ◽  
Adverse Childhood ◽  
Relational Trauma ◽  
The Impact

The segregated representations pertinent to childhood relational trauma have long been posited as a key pathogenic mechanism for dissociation. Yet, the weak to moderate correlation of child maltreatment with dissociation proneness leads to the question about which factors may moderate the impact of adverse childhood interpersonal experiences and work synergistically in the genesis of dissociation. We hypothesized that self-referential memory may play a role and that low accessibility to self-referenced representations may obstruct the ongoing synthesis of self representations, leaving these unassimilated early experiences disintegrated and inimical to mental function in response to a stressful situation. This hypothesis was examined by two experiments in college students. The first experiment showed the association between dissociation proneness and low accessibility to self-referenced representations. The second demonstrated that low accessibility to self-referenced representations moderated the link between childhood relational trauma and dissociation proneness. Weakened self-referential memory matters in the link between trauma and dissociation.

Psychological Trauma in the Context of Familial Relationships: A Concept Analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 549-559 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Isobel ◽  
Melinda Goodyear ◽  
Kim Foster
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Trauma ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Concept Analysis ◽  
Philosophical Inquiry ◽  
Attachment Trauma ◽  
Trauma Research ◽  
Familial Relationships ◽  
Conceptual Clarity ◽  
Relational Trauma

Many forms of psychological trauma are known to develop interpersonally within important relationships, particularly familial. Within the varying theoretical constructs of psychological traumas, and distinct from the processes of diagnosis, there is a need to refine the scope and definitions of psychological traumas that occur within important familial relationships to ensure a cohesive evidence base and fidelity of the concept in application to practice. This review used a philosophical inquiry methodology of concept analysis to identify the definitions, antecedents, characteristics, and consequences of the varying conceptualizations of psychological trauma occurring within important relationships. Interactions between concepts of interpersonal trauma, relational trauma, betrayal trauma, attachment trauma, developmental trauma, complex trauma, cumulative trauma, and intergenerational trauma are presented. Understanding of the discrete forms and pathways of transmission of psychological trauma between individuals, including transgenerationally within families, creates opportunities for prevention and early intervention within trauma-focused practice. This review found that concepts of psychological trauma occurring within familial relationships are not exclusive of each other but overlap in their encompassment of events and circumstances as well as the effect on individuals of events in the short term and long term. These traumas develop and are transmitted in the space between people, both purposefully and incidentally, and have particularly profound effects when they involve a dependent infant or child. Linguistic and conceptual clarity is paramount for trauma research and practice.

scholarly journals Facing the Music: Further Thoughts on Integrating Music into Psychotherapy

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 206
Author(s):  
G. Paul Blimling
Keyword(s):  
Group Psychotherapy ◽  
Individual Psychotherapy ◽  
Bicultural Identity ◽  
Dynamic Psychotherapy ◽  
Relational Trauma ◽  
Constructive Criticism ◽  
Literary Writing ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Made In

In this article, I respond to the insightful commentaries by Karen Riggs Skean (2019), by Richard Harrison (2019), and by Ben Adams (2019) on my hybrid case study of "James," a survivor of chronic relational trauma (Blimling, 2019). These commentaries have stimulated me to think further about the impact of music on my individual psychotherapy work, both with James and with subsequent clients, and specifically with regard to its impact on my approach to group psychotherapy work. In addition, these commentaries have raised particular issues that I respond to, including, (a) constructive criticism by Skean and Harrison regarding the potential further use of "metaprocessing" and the developments made in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) since I completed the Case of James; (b) Skean’s perceptive point explaining how an individual therapist can take a personal passion—like music or literary writing or bicultural identity—and use it to enhance his or her enlivened presence in therapy with a client; and (c) Adams’ thesis that music and psychotherapy both have their origins in the shamanistic practices of our hunter-gatherer ancestors, suggesting that the combination of psychotherapy and music is a kind of return to our very roots.

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