An interesting article.
_http://www.birthpsychology.com/healing/point2.html_ ;
(http://www.birthpsychology.com/healing/point2.html)
John Payne
South Africa
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John,
Many thanks for this article. It is by William Emerson, a pioneer in the
treatment of pre- and perinatal traumas in infants as well as in adults.
In usual synchronistic fashion, right before your post came in, I happened
to receive a link from Stefan about the William Emerson Training Seminars
because he had found a testimonial there by Terry Larimore
_http://www.emersonbirthrx.com/comments.html_ ;
(http://www.emersonbirthrx.com/comments.html)
I give you below a direct link in the archives of the Constellation Talk
group where you can read about Terry Larimore's crucial distinction between
shock and trauma --- a distinction she was only able to make after she had
completed her Primal Therapy and went on to study with William Emerson for the
next
7 years of her life
_http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/ConstellationTalk/message/1526_ ;
(http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/ConstellationTalk/message/1526)
Now to bring this all back front and center to our "fearless leader" Bert
Hellinger, I was pleased and gratified to read on page 278 of _Love's Hidden
Symmetry_, that Bert himself actually will lead a client to relive his birth
trauma when he discovers an interruption in the "reaching out" movement of the
client at birth.
Bert states that he uses "an integration of NLP and Primal Therapy" in order
to facilitate this rebirthing process if its use is warranted during a
constellation.
Now, for me, the plot really thickens here, because I have been incubating
an article about the influence of Primal Therapy on Family Constellations.
From my background perspective in physics, I can easily see that Bert
Hellinger
is the "Albert Einstein of Psychotherapy," (the right-brain
phenomenologist"). But Albert Einstein required a complementary left-brain
antagonist, a
veritable twin to fight with, and in physics that person was the Danish
physicist, Niels Bohr. I see the analogous figure in psychotherapy as Arthur
Janov,
the developer of Primal Therapy. It is fascinating to see that the
Bohr-Einstein debate over the nature of physical reality is exactly analogous
to the
inherent debate that would occur between the phenomenological stance of Bert
Hellinger and the more closed-minded, left-brained, analytical -- not to
mention paranoid --- stance of Arthur Janov.
By the way, Terry Larimore, who had been a Board member of the International
Primal Association for 12 years (1987-1999) has written this short but
important article about Arthur Janov's left-brain "fortress mentality":
BUT JANOV SAYS
..YOU'RE DANGEROUS ..
WHY YOU SHOULDN'T FALL PREY..
TO JANOVIAN ELITISM..
..
_http://www.terrylarimore.com/ReJanov.html_ ;
(http://www.terrylarimore.com/ReJanov.html)
I know that Gary Stuart is a veteran of Primal Therapy and indeed, Gary
calls his workshops "Primal Constellation Experiences." Having experienced so
many of them myself in the last year, I would say that Gary's pioneering
achievements in "breaking the [rigid Germanic] mold" of traditional
constellation
work are due to his integration of Primal techniques into FC.
The tragedy of the Einstein-Bohr debate about the nature of physical reality
was that both men had two halves of a ripped up "treasure map." Instead of
putting the two maps together to make a whole, each man attacked the other
with the arrogant stance that "my half is better than your half."
I believe that in the field of Constellation work, we can all endeavor to
bring about inherent wholeness by putting together the "half-maps" of Bert
Hellinger's FC and Arthur Janov's PT.
Thomas
