fictionpage Chapter 560: 543: Childhood Trauma
Chapter 560: 543: Childhood Trauma
Chapter 560: Chapter 543: Childhood TraumaThe “Psychoanalysis” school is the first systematic, theoretically supported branch of modern psychological consultation and psychotherapy.
Many of this school’s theoretical knowledge and techniques have been deconstructed and integrated into those familiar frameworks in psychological consultation, even becoming akin to “common sense” concepts.
This results in a sense of disconnection.
When learners discuss the techniques of the “Psychoanalysis” school, they either address methods like “Transference Analysis,” “Deep Defense Mechanism,” and “Reconstruction of Past Experiences,” which seem fundamental and almost unnecessary to systematically study, as most who have learned about consultation know a bit about them;
or they delve into advanced techniques like “Hypnosis,” “Dream Interpretation,” and “Subconscious Dialogue,” which are so profound as to seem somewhat esoteric.
In the recent session, Nan Zhubin instructed the visitor to relax their body and freely imagine the first parent-related event that came to mind, utilizing the “free association method” technique from “Psychoanalysis.”
A technique that appears very basic within the “Psychoanalysis” school,
the “free association method” is the core and most iconic technique of the “Psychoanalysis” school. This technique requires the visitor to relax as much as possible, letting go of conscious control and speaking forth everything that comes to mind—thoughts, feelings, images, physical sensations, memories, or word fragments—without selection, judgment, or embellishment.
No matter how trivial, absurd, embarrassing, painful, or illogical these contents may seem.
Simply put, it asks the visitor to “say whatever comes to mind.”
While this sounds simple, its deeper function is to analyze the visitor’s talked-about free association for fixed patterns, recurring themes, contradictions, emotional changes, pauses, slips of the tongue, etc., in order to understand the subconscious’s structure and dynamics.
Implementing this requires a certain level of skill from the consultant: firstly, to let the visitor relax entirely, bypass the visitor’s defense mechanisms, and at the same time, to provide comprehensive attention to all expressed information, including speech rate, tone, intonation, and emotional revelations.
This represents both a foundational element and an advanced application in consultation.urned wistful: “At the time, it must have been some kind of festival, as our house was full of relatives, and everyone gathered together to eat.”
“In the rural area where I grew up, there’s this tradition that during major festivals or on the elderly’s birthdays, they gather everyone together. To put it nicely, it’s called ‘setting up a feast.'”