Can one ever overcome trauma?
“Yes, talking therapies that focus on processing previous traumatic experience can help to process it. Examples of trauma processing therapies are as follows.
EMDR-Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing-in this therapy the therapist reviews with you your recollection of the traumatic event. When eye movements are initiated, the therapist asks you to think of this narrative and also reflect on your emotion, sense of self statements and visceral feelings that you had in response to a traumatic frame. The eye movements help to draw (in an accelerated manner) all of those experiences to facilitate memory consolidation (especially into anterior regions of the prefrontal cortex).
Hypnotherapy Age Regression-the hypnotherapist asks you (while you are in the hypnotic state) to go back into time and to identify the time of the trauma. While in the hypnotic state the trauma memory is easily elicited along with associated sense of self statements and emotions. The hypnotherapist would need to develop a suggestion to share this elicited trauma memory with all of its disturbing emotion and senses of self with the awakening state. This can be troubling and overwhelming to the person if it is not done in increments.
Prolonged Exposure-the therapist and patient review the traumatic experience and then consciously examine different aspects of the traumatic experience over and over again until the person is desensitized to sensory aspects of the trauma.
Redecision Therapy-the therapist uses the current implicit metaphor of the trauma and then uses conscious age regression to go back into the time when the traumatic relationship or event had been experienced. Accessing the metaphor helps to elicit the emotion that had been associated with the trauma and to develop the trauma narrative.”
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