PAST REALITY INTEGRATION® (PRI) therapy
De collega’s Jean Jenson, American psychotherapist, and Ingeborg Bosch, Dutch GZ -psychologe, describe On the way to your true self (Jenson, 1997) en De herontdekking van het ware zelf (Bosch, 2000) develop clear and many recognizable manner the repression and denial of pain in childhood as survival mechanisms and maintained in adult life. In De herontdekking van het ware zelf Bosch presented including a structured way to discover for themselves how we create every time the past with the present and how it eliminates the old survival mechanisms, repression and denial, to process and heal ourselves permanently suffering from youth.
Past Reality Integration (PRI) therapy is going to work in an innovative way. The method is substantially different from other therapies that at first glance may look similar.
Bosch and Jenson rely, net als Alice Miller, on the idea that children will not be able to process the reality of their youth when those, as is usually the case, does not fulfill the needs of the child. Physical or emotional abuse and neglect, but also "pedagogical principles', whether or not subtle, are threatening the survival of the vulnerable child. In order to survive are used the mechanisms of repression and denial. In this way, the child or believe that the abuse does not hurt, does not exist, or that there is a possibility of abuse of the parent to create a parent, who is in a position to meet the needs of the child. In adult life these mechanisms continue to operate, allowing any situation that presents a parallel with the original situation in which the child was abused, evokes a change in consciousness: The adult man goes without saying that responding to realize from the consciousness of the child he once was. The result is that the adult is, more or less frequently, can suddenly feel completely overwhelmed by deep and painful emotions – angst, grief, fault – or even fall into numbness.
PRI is aimed to help the reader / client while still taking the defenses and the processing of the old pain. The pain could not feel the child when, because its survival this threat would be affected. The books describe in a very clear and often surprisingly simple way by means of many examples of how this mechanism is done. This allows the reader gets the chance to first gain access to the theoretical framework on a cognitive level. They will realize how consciousness works. How certain "symbols" (situations or people that make us oblivious to our past thinking) the child's awareness and defense without one noticing active. Because of this one takes the world in those moments where as one that has previously been too real to the child: b.v. big, threatening, unfriendly, overwhelming, etc.. And one feels again like it would be child then felt if these feelings should not have repressed: klein, vulnerable, only, fearful, leave, not appreciated, etc.. Bosch and Jenson show how this child contents of consciousness are always very specific to the person.
Describes how the reader can pass through targeted self-observation and perceive when making a shift in consciousness. The intention is then to the defense that is triggered not to feel the old pain, learn to recognize and to make. This allows the immune system to identify constantly decreases. At the same time it will increasingly be capable of feelings that emerge when one is no longer defends against by the use of defense, admit to consciousness. During this regressive experiences one should try as long as possible to make contact and to keep up with the hitherto 'unlimited felt old feelings', where essential that emphasizes that the emotions that emerge, based on the past. They are old feelings, which should therefore be experienced in that capacity.
This kind of 'disidentification' is a crucial distinction to most other therapies that also target experience painful feelings from childhood. Jenson and Bosch also talk about containment – contain. "Try to contain the feelings." So instead of on cushions to save or scream is recommended to feel – For example, anger - 'only’ to feel. How do you feel this emotion in the body? The venting of emotion PRI looks basically like a preventing really feeling the emotion – continue beating you no longer feel the rage, by fleeing you avoid feeling the anxiety, etc.. In this respect, it is well-nigh PRI meditative.
Explicitly, it is intended to next to the dismantling of pre-existing immunity, explore the emotional truth of one's own childhood, while the, the child then so threatening, to feel emotions, knowing that the adult is safe now, and that feelings are old. Hoping to satisfy the needs of that time still in the present (e.g. by means of transmission, corrective experiences) should hereby be released unconditionally. Here is another essential difference with other, look-alike, therapies. Many therapies are, after all, there is aimed at to provide the client experiences remedial. For example by working with transfer: the therapist as a nice man or woman, or the father or mother you always wanted ... (Rogeriaans). This approach encourages the false hope (a core concept in PRI) the child to fulfill yet in the present old needs. Other therapies suggest role (peopl). One gets the chance to 'negative parent’ unvarnished truth and say the "ideal parent’ to exhibit that behavior which we have always longed for.
This kind of role is tantamount to encouraging the false hope of the client – now you can still get what you then failed. And the false power (false power) fueled – you can assert / defend yourself now, what you as a child could not. Finally, yet a third distinction PRI, most basic, form of defense: the primary defense. This defense form includes all heavy negative thoughts you may have about themselves; "I'm no good, I am guilty, I can not do it". This defense is very painful, but also effective. By thinking and feeling that there is something fundamentally wrong with ourselves, the truth is that we do not
get what we need regardless of who or what we are doing and, hidden from view. All the three mechanisms – false hope, false power and the primary defense – are the very survival mechanisms that we needed as a child, but severely disrupt our life as an adult. They must be dismantled so as a defense in therapy and not encouraged. Therapies that do so can feel very good in the short term ("I'm finally understood 'or' what a relief even to good off me hit ') – so good that they also may lead to dependence on the relationship with the therapist – but do not help to process the old pain and disidentifying from the life dominant and destructive functioning immune system. It does get access to the old pain – and there is the agreement with the PRI therapy – but at the same time the false hope is to fulfill needs from childhood to the present, strengthened rather than broken. In the second (revised) print On the way an appendix is included for your true self that explicitly calculated from the difference between PRI and other methods. In Rediscovering the true self is in hds 9 information given on this subject.
It goes without saying that the above path followed can be easily with the assistance of a therapist. Nevertheless, the books themselves can help the reader already a long way.
Understand the theoretical framework is a huge relief for many readers. One understands for the first time how the emotional life is affected by the childhood, how consciousness can change suddenly and one does will no longer be ashamed of violent emotions that bandied seem to come from nowhere looming. The self-observation and the necessary courage to then gain access to old feelings and daring to experience this truly (not vent) For most people difficult, but at the same time providing much: discovering the truth of their own youth, or very painful, but man it does have "conquered" his own truth and feels enormously strengthened. It can then experience the dizzying depth of the old child's feelings, within the framework of the adult consciousness, leads, provided that it continues to dismantle consistent defense, the processing of that truth. The truth that once was too threatening to the survival, but now it can be admitted into adult life. Namely that there never will be fulfillment of the child's needs.
With the progress of processing of the old feelings, the mechanisms of repression and denial and with it the false hope, false power and the primary defense still left more loosely, creating a new sense of existential freedom. It becomes obvious when the child consciousness is active.
One can admit the old pain to his consciousness and the compulsive false hope and / or false power and / or primary defense that has to manifest over and over again, let go and so take control of their own emotions and life.
In practice it has been found that these books by the high degree of (h)recognition and understanding of work very supportive in therapy. They have helped many to learn the processing and handling emotions. Moreover, the books are also for social workers themselves very useful. For those who want to immerse themselves in their youth in order to sense and help their clients better. Finally, give the books the counselor also a first opportunity to become the, remarkably effective, PRI method to create your own.
The PRI therapy as anno 2002 applied by Bosch and Jenson, and taught to therapists in PRI training, Developed by Bosch and its roots especially in the ideas described by Jenson. A number of concepts that Jenson tightening are therefore no longer fully up to date or have changed (from the fourth edition of On the way to your true self Jenson here refers in part to). In practice, however, that those who are captivated by the ideas of PRI like to read both books, so also get a historical perspective of PRI.
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