WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM PBSP?

Anyone who wishes to achieve more pleasure, satisfaction, meaning and connectedness in life. Anyone who is curious to discover h is/her personal resources and who wants to enlarge his/her range of potential and interpersonal talents and core belief systems.

A QUOTE FROM COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY JOURNAL

Here is a quote in an article (May 2004) in the Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal (published by the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy) discussing the effectiveness of therapy treating trauma based on the experience of Bessel van der Kolk, Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Trauma Centre in Boston :

"For discrete incidents of trauma - a car crash, a fire, an experience of torture - his treatment of choice today is EMDR. In his view, it is quick, 'gets to the imprint' and effectively processes the fragmented pieces of the past. However, where a person has suffered severe developmental deficit - perhaps with no early experience at all of what it felt like to be safe with someone - he believes that the challenges of any therapy will be immense. In such cases, it will be hard for the patient to feel safe in the therapeutic relationship, and for him the answer lies in the kind of body work done by Albert Pesso in which a patient in a group context is able to orchestrate their own reparative somatic experience - perhaps being held or touched by another member: 'Someone like this needs a psychodramatic experience where they can physically feel what it's like to be little again, and be held and safe at the same time - but not by their therapist,' he says. 'They need to go into an altered state of consciousness where they can have that experience. And this kind of work should never be done on a one-to-one level.' "

for link http://www.bacp.co.uk/cpj/may2004/trauma.htm

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