Das personzentrierte Verständnis von Psychotrauma : Zur Integration psychotraumatologischer Erkenntnisse in das Personzentrierte Konzept

Abstract

A Person-centered Understanding of Psychotrauma — a concept for integrating psychotraumatological knowledge into person-centered approach. This article deals with the question of how psychotraumatological findings can be integrated into the person-centered therapy concept. It is suggested that traumatic experiences should not be understood as incongruence, but as extreme structure-bound somato-psychic symptoms, which can only be organismically experienced afterwards. This also supports the hypothesis that successful overcoming of traumatic stress does not about mean to integrate traumatic experiences into concept of self. The re-organization of self-structure resp. reducing incongruence is related to better coping with symptoms of post-traumatic stress diseases with the help of existing self-structure. Patients suffering from complex post-traumatic stress disorder have the chance to develop new self-structures in the therapeutic relationship in the first place. Therapy-theoretical implications as consequences of these personality theoretical assumptions will be presented and discussed.