Outline

Attachment and trauma.

• Neglect, abuse & attachment formation
• Traumatic attachment
• Early attachment & shaping attachment to self
• Internal attachment styles

Adaption to trauma.

• Identify manifestations of self-alienation
• Recognize self-alienation as a survival strategy
• Split brain & conflicting defensive strategies
• Primary structural dissociation vs. secondary
• What to do when the parts highjack the body
• Repair internal attachments
• Help clients overcome the challenge of self-acceptance

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and Fragmentation are related.

• Sensorimotor principles of treatment
  • Prerequisites for successful treatment
  • Mindfulness & psychoeducation
  • Implications of procedurally learned patterns
• Autonomic adaptation
• Teach clients skills to regulate arousal
• Somatic resources for traumatic reactions

The parts Dominate. Blending.

• The questions trauma survivors don’t know to ask
• Blending
• Unblending: step-by-step
• Sensorimotor approaches to unblending

There are internal family systems. Befriending our parts.

• Awaken an observer
• Help clients achieve distance from symptoms
• Decoding: identify parts
• Speak the language of parts to decrease phobia of traumatized parts
• Encourage self-leadership

It is necessary to connect one’s parts for inner healing.

• Recognize the role each part plays in survival
• Assist clients with learning to “ask inside”
• Facilitate internal communication
• What does each part need?
• Establish relationships with parts
• Cultivate empathy for the parts
• The befriending questions

From Alienation to Attachment.

• Rupture & repair of internal attachment
• Provide missing experiences for parts
• Role of mentalization
• Requirements of integration
• What to do when clients get highjacked
• Utilize the Social Engagement system

There are limitations of research and potential risk.