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Enactive trauma therapy is grounded in so-called enactivism, which holds that, like anyone else, traumatized individuals are (1) embrained, embodied, and environmentally embedded; (2) constitute biopsychological organism-environment systems that are essentially interested in preserving their existence; (3) are primarily affective and oriented toward making sense of things. Individuals exhibit a phenomenal self, world, and self-of-the-world through self- and world-oriented actions. They do not act on the basis of knowledge, but possess knowledge on the basis of world-engaged sensorimotor, affect-laden, and goal-oriented actions. Whenever interpersonal traumatization by significant others occurs, individuals may get caught up in affective and relational conflicts they cannot resolve on their own. Their generation and maintenance of a trauma-related dissociation of the personality involves a kind of sense-making that supports their continued existence when their capacity to integrate traumatic experiences is still too low. However, what starts as a courageous effort to navigate a traumatizing life may at some point in time become a serious problem. Enactive trauma therapy comprises the collaboration of two organism-environment systems: the patient and the therapist. Together they spawn new meaning and adequate actions - an interaction that resembles dancing: It takes pacing, mutual attunement, good timing, a sensitivity to balance, movement and rhythm, courage, as well as the ability and willingness to follow and lead.
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$ © 2017, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783525402689 — ISBN E-Book: 9783647402680 © 2017, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783525402689 — ISBN E-Book: 9783647402680 Ellert R. S. Nijenhuis The Trinity of Trauma: Ignorance, Fragility, and Control Enactive Trauma Therapy Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht © 2017, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783525402689 — ISBN E-Book: 9783647402680 With 26 figures and 7 tables Bibliographical information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data available online: http://dnb.d-nb.de. ISBN 978-3-647-40268-0 Cover image: Anatoli Styf/shutterstock.com © 2017, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. KG, Theaterstraße 23, D-37073 Göttingen / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht LLC, Bristol, CT, U.S.A. www.v-r.de All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without prior written permission from the publisher. Typesetting: Satzspiegel, Nörten-Hardenberg Managing Editor: Joseph A. Smith Cover: SchwabScantechnik, Göttingen © 2017, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783525402689 — ISBN E-Book: 9783647402680 Table of Contents Tab leofCont ents Table of Contents Volume III: Enactive Trauma Therapy Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Ignorance, Fragility, and Control versus Realization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Theory: A Navigational Instrument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A Player and a Coach: Two Organism-Environment Systems Enacting a Common World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Trinity of Trauma and The Haunted Self . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Trinity of Trauma: A Trilogy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clinicians and Therapists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gratitude . . . .