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Most analysts will say that "they don't heal" or even hope to do so, but then the question arises "what is their unconscious motivation for sitting for so many hours in front of their patients?" if they really have no wish to change the other?
It would be more honest to say that they have indeed a motivation, that it has to do with wishing an alleviation of ailments, and that they do not know if the subject of this effort is to alleviate their own troubles or those of the patient. Therapy shows that clients have a secret wish to heal their therapist. The converse may be also true and usually shows up rapidly in supervision, followed by the fact that, in truth, they long to heal themselves. This longing is not likely to dissolve easily.
Here, we do not use the term 'heal' in a strong sense, but in the sense of the transformation produced by the process of imprinting. We do not make pretences about the grade of this 'healing process': it depends on the gravity of the original trouble, the success of the imprinting, the depth of the imprinting that has been reached and the number of successful imprints that have been possible. The full range of imprinting is six, including passage, and the number of 'transformations' expected is also about six. Whether a person is satisfied with 3, 4 or 5 imprints is not discussed. Whether it is really possible in a lengthy therapy to produce all six imprints is also a questionable matter. Whether it is at all possible to act the imprint of passage without the help of a significant group holding enough adulthood, symbolic father and the corresponding laws, group impact and support, and capacity of sexual transformation, is also an open question. The better part of the transformation process occurs in fact in the real daily life and whether the society we live in is a sufficient support to help the therapeutic process and not create other complications and/or new ailments is also an issue at hand. Independence (Freedom) and Passage Imprints have to occur in a context larger than or external to the therapy setting, or take place using one or several places or transformation that are available in the world apart from strict therapy.
"Complete" transformation may also be a vague goal, since after the childhood transformation is to be the adult transformation, and after it the spiritual transformation, and after that one the initiation transformation, and we do not expect to provide the client with such ambitious goals in the first place, and not even in the third, within the reduced means of the therapy setting. The potential of each individual, the mystery of existence, and the secret purpose of one's life are far beyond our reach to be even evaluated. We have to respect the mysterious flow of all existence and let it follow its course unobstructed by our own projections, ideals and expectations.
Nonetheless, we use here the tentative definition
Healing in this context means a process of transformation.
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Elemental transformation is the result of a definite essential imprint. A major transformation is considered to happen with the completion of the first four imprints. Independence transformation is considered to happen after the fifth imprint and adulthood transformation after the sixth.
We recall here the scale of essential imprints.
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Now, severe disorders are the outcome of absence or erroneous imprinting. Reversal of those disorders is in our view obtained when the method has permitted regression to the stage of imprinting, when one the windows opens anew (if it is of IRM type), and when the imprint is successfully enacted with the client.
In our clinical experience, it appears however illusory to exactly reproduce what would be had in childhood: for instance carrying is a constant and lengthy process. We use body and transferential techniques to reproduce the essential features of carrying, such as safety of contact, abandon, nursing and nurturing, close company and symbiotic, non-ambivalent responses, and kind and accepting regard.
First, the time spent to obtain that our client actually reaches such a state of abandon and really experiences safety and confidence may be long. With as much as 300 hours per annum (40 to 60 hours of private transferential work and 220 to 260 hours of group work), it may take as long as 7 to 9 years to gain the let-go and confidence state for a client having a history of psychotic structuring and multi-addictions. If vitality can be worked on continuously in group sessions, triggering the birth frenzy takes to catch the first opportunity to practice the holding exercise, which may occur only after 4 years of intensive transferential regression. Some imprints, like bonding, are difficult to reach since they open by themselves only when time is ready after sometimes much regressive work and transferential preparation. The weaning complex is a constant process using a definite transferential attitude and some precise acting steps. But that attitude can be taken only when we are sure that sufficient symbiosis has been lived, which also counts in years.
However, that time is small compared to the time it requires for a child to reach the same stage: it may amount from 3000 to 5000 hours to get to the weaning complex as compared to the 18000 hours of constant care of the normal weaning time. It is surprisingly commensurable with the actual time for infants, especially if we consider that a good part of the therapy takes place also in outer life, especially in the relationships the client lives outside the therapy setting. We observe also that much of this time is spent dismantling the original recordings of fear and tensions, much less being needed for the reconstruction impacts.
Second, that reconstruction by imprinting is done on an already constructed system, distorted or flawed, and not on a blank original. New imprinting will start the original instinctual programs, but will also take into account all that has been recorded up to the present. In that sense, the essential structured will be repaired, but will also have to take in all the consequences of the past difficulties and take them in charge. Also, it will have to cope with the problems of an adult environment such as work, family and children care, and not with only play and emotions as the child would have had to. Repair will never be the same as the original which never was.
Third, one has to count also with extra traumas, those outside natural imprints such as abuse or rape. In our system of therapy, the work dwells for many years on such trauma, digging and freeing at the same time, reliving parts of it and repressing others to have them come up again unexpectedly at times. A rape can be relived after some 5 to 7 years of therapy, but may come up again in a definitely progressive way another ten years after! Thus, major shocks tend to absorb much of the work of the therapy, until partially dissolved, before some features of infancy and birth begin to show.
Re-building the structure strategy may then take 10 to 20 years, depending on the importance of the original disorder. It gives the results of gaining a new structure after each successful step (imprint) and progressively relieves of problems such as delirium, depression and critical acting.
We however are formal here to mean to use real imprinting, acted, experienced, lived in all its dramatic actuality. In our experience, the work of transferential talks, on situations, feelings (if any) or dreams (if any) related to those imprints, are not sufficient and do not lead to transformation when severe disorders are the case. It should be recalled here that fantasies pertain to the primary register and words to the second and do not touch or reveal the archaic contents of the originary register at all, where most of the disordered structures lies.
Without imprinting, the psychic structure is bound to remain more or less untouched, i.e. in its former state, whatever the efforts of the analysis or therapy. Some partial imprinting may be had, however, without knowing it, owing to the care and attention of the analyst or therapist which reproduces tranferentially the attention and care of the mother, reproducing certain features of the carrying imprint. But it does not touch vitality, bonding, or weaning and if the structure may sway a little, or even in some cases gain partial imprinting, it will most probably remain more or less in its former state owing to the fact that without the anterior imprinting (in the scale of construction), it lacks the necessary functions and safety to proceed. This type of partial transferential imprinting may reduce some symptoms as long as the client keeps his hours with the analyst (it amounts to transferentially nursing a traumatised baby), but the symptoms of depression, crises or delirium may resume when the client attempts to live on his own (abandoned and adopted children are not relieved of their original depression by 'normal care' if some specific work on their birth trauma is not done)
We here pretend thus that
without efficient imprinting or re-imprinting, taking into account the order one imprint should be got to be able to open to the next, no real transformation can happen
although some alleviation of the symptoms can be hoped for.
Standard analysis, or methodical therapy of various kinds, amounts to use
Structural global strategy, in contrast, amounts to
We have just mentioned that this strategy is lengthy, owing to the time it takes for the vitality to rebuild itself and for the body functions (feeling and reacting) to return to normal, and thence for the call for imprinting to appear, and for the major trauma to dissipate. In our clinical experience, around 90% of the work is used to help regression through the reliving of the very painful archaic experiences, and is as fast as possible owing to the limited capacity to suffer anew the qualms of infancy.
The results obtained by imprinting are had by steps, each corresponding to an elemental transformation, which opens up the call for the next. Each step gained starts a new way of functioning which is acquired and not reversible. Elemental transformations open up each time a new way of living self.
In the view of the first results we have (around ten) for major transformation (first four imprints), the results are very satisfying, the persons (having originally an autistic, psychotic or paranoid structure with various addictive means of support) showing today
The points which do not seem satisfying and still raise questions are
The last was expected since they refer to the higher imprints of independence and especially passage.
We have very few examples of the subsequent transformation (about four, and not all of our own clinical setting). The independence imprint seems to have to do with a total independence of thought together with the recognition of one's own contingency and limitation of actions. The examples we have of passage transformation all have had recourse to spiritually oriented places or initiatory institutions. It seems that our society do not contain the sufficient ingredients for this imprint, and that obviously a therapist alone is not abundant enough to produce them, although he or she may have done the major part of the work. Those persons have found the complementary constituents in smaller groups, in addition to the incidence of the spiritual work, or even taking advantage of this spiritual work for an anterior structuring. It seems, although those results are today very partial, that the acquisition of those last imprints, even if approximate, tend to reduce the former known problems, the individual showing then
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