Janina Fisher – The Body as a Shared Whole: Using Visualization Techniques to Treat Dissociation

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Janina Fisher, Faculty
1 hour and 2 minutes in length.
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Legal reprint dates: September 24, 2020
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In the context of traumatic experience, disconnection from self is a survival technique that allows victims to deny what is happening and the parts of themselves that are traumatized. When the mind dissociates as an inherent survival mechanism, the result is typically a lifetime of inner turmoil, guilt, self-loathing, inability to self-soothe, and relational difficulties. These people are typically stigmatized with the name “borderline” because they lack internal coherence and compassion, making them susceptible to suicidality, self-harm, and substance misuse.

All people have a brain that can imagine or visualize experiences of acceptance, intimacy, and comfort that elicit the same bodily sensations associated with early safe attachment, even if they seem irreparably wounded. Clients report feeling a sense of warmth and safety they’ve never had before when you help them find their lost younger self and mentally bring them “home.” The therapeutic potential of somatic experience in re-establishing clients’ attachment to their most rejected younger selves will be discussed.

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The Shared Whole of the Body: A Guide on the Use of Visualization in the Treatment of Dissociation (2.1 MB)

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Takeaways from the PESI Virtual Summit (911.9 KB)

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Faculty

Doctor of Philosophy Janina Fisher. Products and seminars relevant to this topic: 63

The Trauma Center, created by Bessel van der Kolk, employs licensed clinical psychologist Janina Fisher, Ph.D., as a previous instructor.

Dr. Fisher has been working with individuals, couples, and families since 1980, and he is well recognized as an authority in trauma treatment.

She has held positions as the president of the New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation, as well as the assistant educational director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute and the instructor position at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Fisher is an advocate for incorporating findings from neurobiological studies and contemporary trauma therapy paradigms into time-honored practices, and he often gives talks and workshops on this issue at conferences and universities throughout the globe.

She has written Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation (2017) and co-authored Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Attachment and Trauma (2015) with Pat Ogden. Her next book is titled Working with the Neurobiological Legacy of Trauma (in press).

Declaratory Statements by the Speakers

Janina Fisher works as an independent financial consultant. The company, PESI, Inc., pays her to give speeches.

To the best of Janina Fisher’s knowledge, she has no material non-financial relationships to report.

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