There's a lovely description in another thread this morning about a trauma loop and how that can work. I recognize it in myself -- I recognized that I flip-flopped between compliant and --- something else -- in therapy and mentioned it to the last therapist near the very beginning of the therapy! This seems like a primitive, binary (relatively uncomplicated) situation that could be taught. Not just CSA but -- I hate the terms -- narcissistic abuse and neglect were the likely factors in my case.

So, then, what to do -- what can the profession and/or a training experience do -- for therapists, like my last, who likely had had her own (narcissistic) abuse and neglect and it had not been resolved.