the first dream in my life and in therapy about my mother ended while I wondered what to do with my mother—stuffed in a garbage bag sitting in front of me I was shocked by that dream—I was a good daughter she would not have dared to see her relationship with her mother as a…
Author: atherapeutic
escaping
Written in Chicago, 1992 forty-two years old, I have moved back to Chicago by myself I have left my marriage, both children are in college for the first time in my life I live by myself one morning as I perceive awakening in my bed I watch my cat playing a cruel game with a…
My truth part
My truth part: living unknowingly as a child under the dark shadow of fascism Barbara: My part does not feel safe. I’m not worried about COVID. No, it’s the election and the republicans, all the law-suits, and that the republicans don’t say anything, and the parallel to hitler-Germany where the conservatives supported hitler and finally,…
IFS Therapy session: Dress of responsibility
IFS THERAPY SESSION: “Dress of responsibility” and “The swamp” IFS Therapy Session February 15, 2021 Barbara: There is a level of tension inside of me that is always there. And the word that I have used so many times lately, “Zuversicht,” “looking forward with confidence,” I don’t feel that anymore. And the sadness is there…
IFS Therapy: Meeting my guide
IFS THERAPY SESSION – MEETING MY GUIDE Barbara: I was going to bed, and I have an automatic light. I have enough time to go to the bedroom, and eventually, it turns off. When I got into my bedroom, my cat was on my bed, and I took her in my arms and wanted to…
Divided Memories: Letters to PBS and Frontline
Editor’s note: Moving Forward received copies of several letters that were sent to PBS in response to its broadcast of Frontline’s “Divided Memories.” The film aired on April 4 and 11 [1995]; was produced, written, and directed by Ofra Bikel; Associate producer, Karen O’Conner; Editor, Susan Fanshel. The following letters by Ross E. Cheit (a…
Facts about the hoax of the “false memory syndrome”
1.) “From its inception, the False Memory Foundation has made media influence a priority, funneling public perceptions of the research through a specific value-laden filter. Yet there is no research to date documenting either a set of symptoms making up such a syndrome or an epidemic of those symptoms, in spite of the widespread promulgation…