Healthy Autonomy

Partnership in sexually traumatized women

An early traumatization - the trauma of identity and the trauma of love - is often followed by the traumatization of sexuality. In accompanying people in their trauma biography, we often encounter the trauma triad: not wanted, not loved, not protected. The foundation for the development of a dependent relationship pattern is laid. In early attachment trauma, sexual trauma is exacerbated. In working with clients, I have often seen that if they are sexually traumatized, they also tend to seek out specific partners, where an obvious re-enacting in the relationship, which was experienced in the initial sexual trauma, takes place. When such a relationship comes to an end and no trauma processing has taken place, the next partnership is often similar, despite the negative experiences of the previous relationship. So many women stumble from one difficult relationship to the next. The key to living a healthier relationship is working on one's own feeling of victimization. When one's own victimization has become clear and tangible, the resulting victim identity can be resolved and there is less blindness to potential perpetrators. At the beginning of my workshop, I would like to go into the co-dependent relationship pattern a little bit further and afterward I want to give the opportunity to work with the Intention Method.

Meike Hansen, music therapist (music therapy studies Vienna 1999-2003), life and social counselor, further education in IoPT with Franz Ruppert (2013). Occupational activity in the clinical area and in private practice in Vienna. Publication: Resonance Experiences in Music Therapy from the Perspective of Identity-Oriented Psychotrauma Therapy, Music Therapy Review 2018, Vol.4.

www.musiktherapie-hansen.at 
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The effectiveness of IOPT on autoimmune disease activity

Between September 2019 and June 2020 I will conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) and I will evaluate the effectiveness of Identity oriented Psychotraumatherapy (IoPT) on the course of the autoimmune disease activity.  I have hypothesized that treating trauma behind the illness will have a positive impact upon the disease activity by decreasing the level of intraaggression and dissociation and by increasing the contact with the trauma feelings and consequently, the contact with the body. All the participants (experimental and control) will present pre-, posttest and follow-up medical data regarding their autoimmune disease and will be assessed with a series of measures.

Workshopmaterials can be downloaded here.

Maria-Magdalena Macarenco, born in 1976, works in Constanta and Bucharest (Romania) as a clinical psychologist and EMDR accredited therapist, with 19 years of experience in the army and in her private practice. She is a PhD student in health psychology at the Bucharest University, running a research regarding psychotrauma and autoimmune diseases. She is specialized in psychotrauma, trained in EMDR (Richard Mitchell, 2012-2013), systemic constellations (Jutta ten Herkel, 2012-2013), Multigenerational Psychotraumatology (prof. Franz Ruppert, 2013-2015) and Identity oriented Psychotraumatherapy (prof. Franz Ruppert, 2015-2017). Since 2013, she offers constellations seminars using prof. Ruppert method and more recently, she provides trainings in the Intention Method at the Institute for Study and Treatment of Trauma, Bucharest.

www.psiholog-macarenco.ro

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