Effects of an affect bridge for age regression

Christensen, Ciara; Barabasz, Arreed; Barabasz, Marianne

doi:10.1037/e523862008-001

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“…Furthermore, since Broca's area of the brain shuts down, these individuals become extremely limited in their ability to communicate what it is they are feeling. In an attempt to cope with these events, the traumatized individual seems to regress to primary process thinking (Barabasz & Christensen, 2006;Christensen, Barabasz, & Barabasz, 2009), responding to reminders of the past by automatically engaging in thinking and actions that were once appropriate and adaptive at a primary level but are now maladaptive in response to the current presenting stimuli. These findings are consistent with Jackson's explanation (1958) that conceptualized the brain as hierarchically organized from the bottom up.…”

Section: Neurobiological Bases Of Ego State Theorymentioning

confidence: 98%

Single-Session Manualized Ego State Therapy (EST) for Combat Stress Injury, PTSD, and ASD, Part 1:The Theory

Barabasz

Watkins

2011

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis

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Ego state therapy (EST) evolved from a psychodynamic understanding of personality as a product of an individual's ego states to a conceptualization of how ego-energized and object-energized elements are bound together to cope with a traumatic event. Neurobiological studies now substantiate Watkins's war neuroses conceptualizations. Because of their severity, trauma memories are encoded in the subcortical-subconscious brain regions that are accessed by the single-session manualized EST procedure but not by the popular cognitive-behavioral management therapies. The imprint of the trauma is not accessible or resolvable by such top-down verbal understanding or reframing; EST is a bottom-up therapy. Abreactive hypnosis facilitates ego state expression at physiologically and psychologically intense levels sufficient to activate subcortical processes to release affect in the presence of the therapist, who adds ego strength to the patient. This is followed by interpretation and reintegration. The result is a reconstructed personality that is adaptive and resilient.

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Section: Neurobiological Bases Of Ego State Theorymentioning

confidence: 98%

Single-Session Manualized Ego State Therapy (EST) for Combat Stress Injury, PTSD, and ASD, Part 1:The Theory

Barabasz

Watkins

2011

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis

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“…Fromm, Oberlander, and Gruenewald (1970) reported "that hypnosis per se will make primary process material more accessible" (p. 386), and Nash (1987) wrote that "some evidence suggests that during hypnosis, there is an increase in primary process thinking and a more spontaneous and intense expression of affect, unburdened by logic or sequential thinking" (p. 50). In support of that, a very recently published study by Christensen, Barabasz, and Barabasz (2009), when comparing lows (scores of 3 or less on the SHSS:C) versus reals (scores of 9 to 12 on the SHSS:C), found that "hypnotizable participants (reals) exposed to hypnosis for age regression are significantly more likely to display child-like primary process affective behaviors than simulating counterparts" (p. 413).…”

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Trance State Effects and Imagery Vividness Before and During a Hypnotic Assessment:A Preliminary Study

Pekala

Maurer

Kumar

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International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis

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This preliminary study explored the relationship between imagery vividness before and during a hypnotic phenomenological assessment procedure, the Phenomenology of Consciousness Inventory-Hypnotic Assessment Procedure (PCI-HAP), while also assessing trance (hypnoidal) state effects and several other variables. The PCI-HAP allows the assessment of trance state effects associated with hypnotism to be quantified and statistically assessed. The 102 subjects completed the PCI-HAP along with several other questionnaire items. Correlational and regression analyses suggested that imagery vividness during hypnotism (hypnotic imagoic suggestibility) was predicted by combined imagery vividness before hypnotism and trance (altered) state effects during hypnotism. When measuring several additional variables, imagery vividness during hypnotism was found to be a function of self-reported hypnotic depth and additional other variables. The usefulness of these results for better understanding imagery vividness before and during hypnotism is discussed.

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“…Next, the patient is hypnotized using an induction tailored to the patient (Christensen et al, 2009). We recommend the induction used in the two placebocontrolled studies (discussed later) as a guide to a tailored approach because it enhances the resonance between the therapist and the client and facilitates the communication and transfer of the therapist's ego strength to the client.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…state dependent defense mechanisms learned in early life (Barabasz & Christensen, 2006;Christensen, Barabasz, & Barabasz, 2009). A stimulus associated with the trauma, experienced in the past, becomes present (van der Kolk, 1994) thus precluding patients from sufficiently integrating trauma memories into conscious mental frameworks.…”

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Evidence Based Abreactive Ego State Therapy for PTSD

Barabasz

2013

American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis

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A single 5-6 hours manualized abreactive ego state therapy session has recently been subjected to two placebo-controlled investigations meeting evidence-based criteria. Ego state therapy was found to be a highly effective and durable treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder. Apparently, ego state therapy works because it is emotion focused, activates sub-cortical structures, and because the supportive, interpretive therapist reconstructs the patient's personality to be resilient and adaptive. In this article the author reviews the treatment procedures and presents the findings of both studies.

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Effects of an affect bridge for age regression

Cited by 6 publications

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Single-Session Manualized Ego State Therapy (EST) for Combat Stress Injury, PTSD, and ASD, Part 1:The Theory

Single-Session Manualized Ego State Therapy (EST) for Combat Stress Injury, PTSD, and ASD, Part 1:The Theory

Trance State Effects and Imagery Vividness Before and During a Hypnotic Assessment:A Preliminary Study

Evidence Based Abreactive Ego State Therapy for PTSD

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