Somatic interventions for working with trauma-related borderline personality disorder
with Janina Fisher
Research over the past thirty years has demonstrated a clear relationship between childhood abuse and a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder. Rather than experiencing others as a safe haven, traumatised individuals are driven by a powerful longing, and at the same time an intense fear, of entering into relationships.
The borderline patient is not at war with the therapist. He or she is engaged in an internal battle: Do I trust or not? Do I live or do I die? Do I love or do I hate? Understanding these patients as fragmented and at war with themselves transforms both the therapeutic relationship and the treatment.
In this presentation, we will address the impact of traumatic attachment on individuals’ capacity to tolerate emotions (their own and those of others) and how “borderline personality” can be more effectively understood as a trauma-related disorder. Exploring the effects of traumatic attachment opens up new ways of working with patients who struggle to face their trauma and their emotional responses. This seminar series combines lectures and video to explore how to help patients make sense of their internal battles and better manage their dysregulated emotional and autonomic states.
New approaches and interventions drawn from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems, and mindfulness-based therapies can transform what it means to treat “borderline” patients.
Credits: Psicologia.io : https://www.psicologia.io/clinica-del-trauma-e-della-dissociazione-masterclass
