This is an idea that I have been finding, and then losing, and finding again recently… To explain what I mean I’ll start with a definition, first from m-w.com, and then my particular emphasis… Frame : Date: 14th century 1 a : something composed of parts fitted together and united b : the physical makeup [...]
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Masochism: A bridge to the other side of abuse – Elizabeth Howell
27/04/2009
Full Article Every once in a while I come across a research article that opens my mind. I have come across the idea of “subpersonalities” before, and have recently been researching on the “repetition compulsion”, amongst other things psychological. This article really stuck out from the crowd in offering a concise, coherent, and useful model [...]
The Repetition Compulsion – revisited
17/04/2009
I have come across several different possible explanations for the repetition compulsion in the literature. There is a considerable ambiguity about what repetition compulsion actually covers, since some would include PTSD style flashbacks and nightmares in the category. For me, repetition compulsion requires that an individual’s actual behaviour appears directed towards replicating an earlier trauma. [...]
Repetition Compulsion – “You can’t hold back the past…”
16/04/2009
Repetition compulsion is the term used by Freud to describe the mind’s tendency to repeat traumatic events. “The patient cannot remember the whole of what is repressed in him, and what he cannot remember may be precisely the essential part of it…. He is obliged to repeat the repressed material as a contemporary experience instead [...]
Helping to heal by guiding the client’s attention
09/02/2009
Yesterday I saw a friend who had had a nasty car accident at the beginning of January. She had a compound fracture of her humerus and a lot of associated soft tissue damage. Her arm was immobilised in a sling and she could only sleep sitting up, I felt that she was still carrying a [...]
Massage for Chronic Psychosomatic Tension
18/01/2009
Chronic psychosomatic tension refers to long-term imbalances in psychic and muscular tone that manifest in the mind and body in a coordinated way. Early researchers in the field of psychotherapy recognised the essential unity of the mind and body. However, the most influential of them, Sigmund Freud, excluded the body from a meaningful position in [...]
House of Changes – Jeni Couzyn
22/05/2008
My Body is a wide house A commune Of bickering women, hearing their own breathing denying each other. Nearest the door ready in her black leather is Vulnerable. She lives in the hall her face painted with care her black boots reaching her crotch her black hair shining her skin milky and soft as butter. [...]
