The Conscious Natural Child

Abstract

The author, whose experiential training in regressive therapy took place at the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Center, with the Schiff family, and at Cathexis Institute, presents his current work with self-directed regressive therapy in the reintegration of dissociatively defended personalities. He examines the two models of regressive therapy that were practiced at the aforementioned settings—fully supported residential regressions and highly structured, short-term, outpatient regressions—and offers reasons why he no longer practices the regressive therapy and reparenting techniques employed in those models. The author presents a brief discussion of dissociative defenses and outlines his model of self-directed, regressive reintegration of dissociatively defended personalities. The ego state model employed is the three ego states model.