When I am overwhelmed and cannot defend
myself I feel ashamed. I am struck by
the way in which my entire lives seem to play out themes from their childhood
like my frequent experiences of abandonment.
Repetition compulsion describes the behaviors, relationships, emotions
and dreams that seem to be replays of early trauma. Freud observed that people continue to put
themselves in situations strangely reminiscent of an original trauma in order
to learn new solutions. However, the
fragmented elements that perpetuate traumatic emotion and behavior can be
completed, integrated, and made whole again.
With this wholeness comes a sense of mastery and resolution.
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