Loss, Double Binds, and the Family Dynamic: Part 1
Double binds or paradoxical imprints provide the most complicated dynamics in the PPN field. Double binds amplify practitioner countertransference issues as well as complications for facilitating groups or families.
This subject matter is saved for modules 7 and 8 because the dynamics of these trauma provide the practitioner with the greatest countertransference challenges in the prenatal and birth therapy field. The curricula of the first five modules is designed to build the trainees’ understanding, perception, presence, and therapeutic skills so that they are more prepared to explore the effects of double binds in effective and compassionate ways. Special attention is given to how double bind imprints affect families and group dynamics.
Module 6 focuses on ancestral influences, twin dynamics, and twin loss. Ancestral influences on individuation are explored to differentiate twin and ancestral imprinting. Twin embryonic and placental development are correlated with twin behavior later in life. Lost twin syndrome effects on singleton behavior is covered. You will learn to identify twin psychological imprinting, the countertransference/transference issues involved and twin dynamic therapeutic protocols. Breech birth presentation is covered in this module because a high percentage of breech presentations have occured during twin births.
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