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Originally Posted by Ygrec23
Of course. I trust T and will be happy to do what she suggests. My only concern is that she seems somewhat unaware of all the recent (10-20 years) discoveries in developmental theory and related fields. I would have to guess that at least a significant part of my prior lack of success in therapy (many moons ago) was due to the great difficulty, amounting pretty close to impossibility, that my then T's had with pre-verbal, pre-memory psychopathologies.
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The therapies my T and I used to work through pre-verbal, infant stuff were EMDR and ego state therapy. We had to do this early-in-life work before I could move forward in my life, because I had some big problems to tackle and was totally stuck. We also did some post-verbal, young work (child-aged). For me, ego state therapy was particularly powerful, and did evoke a lot of feelings. (My T also uses Lifespan Integration therapy, but we didn't formally do that--it has some similarities to ego state therapy and we did use some of its elements.) When I first came to therapy, my T said I was one of the most contained people he had met--where were those feelings? So I've been helped by therapy a lot in learning to detect, feel, and express my feelings. That is really good old fashioned psychotherapy, so if your issues include not being able to feel your feelings, you may find you don't need the most recently developed techniques for that. On the other hand, maybe they would be just the ticket--I think I needed something really powerful to help me. What is powerful to a person varies with the individual, of course. (CBT is not a technique that could help me with my problems.) Ygrec, if you do decide that you need the most up-to-date techniques to help you, and you think your T doesn't have them, does that mean you will seek out another T? Ask your T to learn these techniques? Try them on your own?
For information on Lifespan Integration Therapy:
http://www.lifespanintegration.com
Lifespan Integration is a new technique which promotes rapid healing in adults who experienced abuse and/or neglect during childhood. This new method relies on the innate ability of the body-mind to heal itself. Lifespan Integration uses a psychological technique called an "affect bridge" to find a memory which is connected to the current problem. The therapist guides the client to imaginally re-visit this past memory, bringing into the past whatever is needed to resolve the memory. After the memory is resolved, the therapist leads the client through time to the present using a Time Line of visual images of scenes from the client's life. This Time Line of memories and images proves to the client's body-mind system that time has passed and that life is different now. This "proof" occurs at a deeper level than is possible with commonly used cognitive behavioral [talk therapy] methods.