Re:EMDR after 10 sessions...WOW

I'm so very glad you felt a bit of progress. It may not seem like much, but that's therapy, fits and starts and baby steps... slamming anything sounds neat to me, although I would refuse to do it: I don't like physically moving/expressing myself.

Anyway, the real reason I am posting is a book, recommendation, if you like to read. For the longest time I saw therapy as entirely trauma based: find the abuse and the symptoms will go away. My therapist now is very into "attachment" theory, the stuff you talk about: emotional abandonment and such. Parents being attuned to their children, ways of interrelating (or not).

The book is "Becoming Attached: How First Relationships Shape Our Capacity to Love". I may have messed up a couple of words of the subtitle. It's by Robert Karen. This book, to me, was a miracle, you might enjoy it, it explained so much of myself to me. It's clinical, not self help, btw, but an easy read and very worth it.

Best of luck to you.

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