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lack of love in childhood, or a trauma at birth), relive the pain,
and thus heal it.
What does it look like?
Patients return to the exact neuro-physiologic state as occurred
originally at the time of the trauma. The treatment is an openended therapy in which the therapist remains accessible to the
patient for as long as necessary. The aim of Primal Therapy is to
restore the patients access to their repressed feelings and
therefore free them from the consequences of repression. It is a
process that the patients can go on doing by themselves once
they have "access" to the buried feelings.
Each time they let themselves "feel" they reconnect themselves
to the origin of the repression and have numerous insights. They
also feel better that they knew was possible because they take
the misery out of their systems.
How does it help the client?
Primal Therapy helps by returning to the origins of the problem,
lifting it out of the unconscious, making a conscious connection
and thus integrating and resolving the pain.
4. In your opinion, what makes Primal Therapy a cool
intervention?
It is one of the most heavily researched private psychotherapies
extant in the world; and the "cool" thing about it is it is also one
of the most effective modalities extant.
Source:
Published on February 5, 2010 by Ryan Howes, PhD, ABPP in In
Therapy - http://www.psychologytoday.com/

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