Facing Painful Memories in Therapy
As a general rule, people are quite aware of the sources of their pain.
Losses, injuries and abuse are rarely invisible to the sufferer. What people often do not understand however, are the strategies that they use to handle the experience of being hurt and how these strategies cause continuing problems for them in daily living.
What kinds of strategies?
Someone who insists on avoiding thinking about a traumatic past must avoid any mental pathway that leads in that direction.
This avoidance
