Relational complications in current trauma therapy (Morit Heitzler & Michael Soth 2018)

2018-07-23T16:10:17+00:00

Trauma therapy, aided by revolutionary neuroscientific understandings, has been very successful over the last 20 years or so, and has expanded enormously. New trauma therapies have proliferated, new tools, techniques and methodolgies have been developed, the reach and scope of treatable conditions has been extended and public and [...]

Working with Sadism – an embodied relational approach (Morit Heitzler 2014)

2017-04-07T02:55:15+00:00

Based on a presentation at CONFER in December 2014, this paper explores the complex identifications which occur in the therapist's countertransference when working with a horrifically traumatised client who had been on the receiving end of life-threatening sadism for a prolonged period in her teenage years. Morit questions [...]

Broken Boundaries, Invaded Territories (Morit Heitzler 2013)

2017-04-07T02:55:13+00:00

One of the most excruciating aspects of trauma is the invasion or collapse of boundaries, not just in the moment of trauma, but as lasting damage. Traumatised clients usually bring to therapy an ongoing background feeling of threat: both to physical and emotional survival and to their sense [...]

Using EMDR with Various Types of Developmental Trauma (Morit Heitzler 2011)

2017-04-07T02:55:14+00:00

Complex trauma is based on underlying developmental trauma. However, developmental trauma is a very broad, non-specific category. There are several typologies and classification systems of developmental trauma available, with various degrees of usefulness to EMDR practitioners.
Having researched and assessed these different theories, in this workshop I will offer [...]

Crowded Intimacy – Engaging Multiple Enactments in Complex Trauma Work (Morit Heitzler 2010)

2017-04-07T02:55:14+00:00

My aim in this paper is to introduce relational Body Psychotherapy and its relevance to working with trauma. The term 'relational' is now widely used; it has recently become fashionable and most practitioners accept that “it is the relationship that matters” (title of BACP conference 2006, London). However, [...]

The processing body – integrating EMDR and Body Psychotherapy (Morit Heitzler 2008)

2017-04-07T02:55:20+00:00

The processing body - integrating EMDR and Body Psychotherapy: The paper presents a model for integrating EMDR with Body Psychotherapy principles and techniques. The model will be illustrated by clinical material from work with a patient who suffers from complex PTSD as a result of a recent traumatic [...]