Trauma
When thinking about trauma, we often associate it with war, natural disasters or major accidents. However, psychological trauma often refers to painful events that took place during childhood but are still being expressed in adulthood. I define trauma as anything that overwhelms a person’s normal ability to cope. In practice this means that the past is constantly affecting the present such that the trauma can make you a stranger to yourself: disconnected and dissociated from your real feelings.
When these overwhelming events are discussed in the presence of a skilled and empathic therapist, we can get to the root of the traumatic experiences. Once this personal history is talked about, there is then no need to act it out through addiction, rage, violent behaviour or phobic anxieties and healing can take place. This is where my knowledge and experience of attachment therapy becomes most relevant, as I believe that early attachment problems and traumatic experiences are at the core of our well-being.
In the past 15 years I have been treating survivors of sexual abuse, ritual abuse and mind control. I have successfully worked with some people who were deemed unsuitable for therapy.
I specialise in PTSD (Post-traumatic stress disorder), DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder), survivors of psychosexual trauma as well as other trauma related disorders.
I have written articles, spoken in conferences, and am the co-writer of the book “Ritual abuse and mind control: the manipulation of attachment needs.”
I am a member of ISTD (International Society for Trauma & Dissociation), ESTD (European Society for Trauma & Dissociation) where I am co-editor of the ESTD newsletter and RAIN (ritual abuse network).
When these overwhelming events are discussed in the presence of a skilled and empathic therapist, we can get to the root of the traumatic experiences. Once this personal history is talked about, there is then no need to act it out through addiction, rage, violent behaviour or phobic anxieties and healing can take place. This is where my knowledge and experience of attachment therapy becomes most relevant, as I believe that early attachment problems and traumatic experiences are at the core of our well-being.
In the past 15 years I have been treating survivors of sexual abuse, ritual abuse and mind control. I have successfully worked with some people who were deemed unsuitable for therapy.
I specialise in PTSD (Post-traumatic stress disorder), DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder), survivors of psychosexual trauma as well as other trauma related disorders.
I have written articles, spoken in conferences, and am the co-writer of the book “Ritual abuse and mind control: the manipulation of attachment needs.”
I am a member of ISTD (International Society for Trauma & Dissociation), ESTD (European Society for Trauma & Dissociation) where I am co-editor of the ESTD newsletter and RAIN (ritual abuse network).
Trauma Therapy (published in ISTD newsletter May 2018)
If I give you my story
how would I know
that you won’t turn it
into rock and stones
rigid like my battered bones?
That your ears are not so broken
and your heart is not so shaken
like mine
that your imperfect mind
will not use some cheap metaphors
that our projections (you call countertransference)
become your shrine
and that your patient smile
is not for me to abhor
Instead, little by little
you can tell
that the need for my hell
Is to become a feather
then sail
floating on a broken wave
away from the daily rave
to unknown land
still close to our hearts
yet slightly further from the past
repeating old mistakes
(Admit) your truth is not universal
but for me to choose and take
I think that’s what you mean
when you talk about trust
By Orit Badouk Epstein
how would I know
that you won’t turn it
into rock and stones
rigid like my battered bones?
That your ears are not so broken
and your heart is not so shaken
like mine
that your imperfect mind
will not use some cheap metaphors
that our projections (you call countertransference)
become your shrine
and that your patient smile
is not for me to abhor
Instead, little by little
you can tell
that the need for my hell
Is to become a feather
then sail
floating on a broken wave
away from the daily rave
to unknown land
still close to our hearts
yet slightly further from the past
repeating old mistakes
(Admit) your truth is not universal
but for me to choose and take
I think that’s what you mean
when you talk about trust
By Orit Badouk Epstein
