Dissociation
Suicidal Self Rejection from Feeling Unwanted at Birth
Thursday, October 1st, 2009Clea, a young woman who was the second-born of twins, recalled her father’s disappointment because she wasn’t a boy like the first twin. Clea had also taken on her mother’s anxiety about displeasing her father. Clea’s adult feelings of worthlessness and self-rejection associated with being female as well as her compulsive need to please men […]
Feelings of Rejection from the Prenatal Period
Thursday, September 17th, 2009Melissa had been feeling rejected, resentful and guilty all her life in relation to her mother. She also complained of chronic pain in her lower back. When we focused on the prenatal period, she recalled her mother having the same back pain in the fourth month of the pregnancy. At that time her mother was […]
Impact of Parental Attitudes at Conception on Our Feelings about Sex
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009Karmic Therapy focused on conception is often the quickest and easiest way to deal with sexual dysfunction and other difficulties with intimacy. Among the many hundreds of patients I have seen over three decades, I can’t recall a single instance where the patient could not recall anything about conception.
Rhonda, a woman in her late twenties, […]
WHY INTEGRATIVE PSYCHIATRY? HERE’S AN EXAMPLE OF THE BROAD PSYCHOSPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVE THAT AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH TO MENTAL HEALTH OFFERS
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008VARIETIES OF SPLITTING IN OUR SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE
We all feel conflicted or split at times, but normally these conflicting feelings are contained within an overall sense of a unified self. After severe trauma, in psychotic states, or during spiritual experiences, however, we may experience what seem to be different voices from within ourselves or from outside. […]
KARMIC THERAPY AND DISSOCIATIVE SOUL LOSS
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007When we are unable to face and integrate a difficult experience, the memory of the event can be split off from awareness as tension or pain frozen in the body, causing physical symptoms and limiting beliefs in the mind, generating personality problems. Splitting off unintegrated fragments of traumatic experience serves a protective function but at […]
Energy Vampirism and Sexual Abuse
Monday, August 13th, 2007It is not customary in psychological and psychiatric circles to think of sexual abusers and their victims in energetic terms, yet the neglect of this dimension blinds us to important therapeutic possibilities. The following energetic description of abuse is derived primarily from my training in advanced shamanic healing with Jen Tarchin in Salt Lake City.
Sexual […]