Re:emotional abandonment

These two posts have their finger on the pulse of the knotty discussions between EMDR practitioners at the current time. One new approach, the Strategic Developmental Model devised by Maureen Kitchur (www.kitchur.org) has focused on how to access these early preverbal, prememory experiences, which are conceptualized as being key targets for EMDR processing that remediates unmet early developmental milestones. Kitchur uses a genogram approach to map family relationships and key milestones including trauma. In this model the therapy addressed middle childhood trauma first, then goes back to early "primary processing", by targetting snippets of memory or felt experience associated with those early years. There is more to it, but basically, having access to felt sensations in the body or emotional threads may allow the client to access and unravel the whole sweater. Stabilization, safety, and containment skills, as always, are key first steps.

Currently (I mean, at this minute) others are debating whether this approach is the necessary or only way to get at these early experiences.

I also use an ego state approach that allows access to preverbal parts of clients self-system, and also allows ego strengthening by connect weaker child parts with stronger adult parts. (www.paulsenconsulting.com/Articles for professionals and "Looking Through the Eyes" workshop for ego state therapy with dissociative and non-dissociative clients).

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