Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology Book 0)

by Pat Ogden

In the aftermath of trauma, change, challenge, and reminders of the past can unexpectedly trigger hyper- or hypo arousal. You may lose time, meaning that you may have little awareness about what happened to you for a period of time.

and each part can function outside of your control or awareness some of the time.

If they learned to avoid, fear, override, ignore, dislike, or even hate their bodies, they will most likely come up against obstacles and resistance to working somatically.

With many clients your first task will be to help them discover these attitudes and reframe them as attempts to ensure survival or win the acceptance of their parents or other attachment figures.

Clients who have not been traumatized may have become disconnected from the body in order to dampen emotions that were not acceptable or welcome in the family or to otherwise meet the expectations of attachment figures.