Autorentext

Peggy Pace graduated from the University of Washington in 1969 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry. She eventually returned to school and in 1985 she received a Master of Art's degree in Counseling Psychology from Antioch University. Pace spent much of her career between 1985 and 2003 counseling adults who suffered from symptoms of childhood trauma. She developed the Lifespan integration technique after realizing that many of her patients' present-day problems were due to body memories of unintegrated and unresolved past traumas. Lifespan Integration (LI) is a therapeutic process which enables trauma survivors to integrate body memory of past experiences into their present-day selves, resulting in more coherence in their self-systems and more fluid life narratives. Pace published the first edition of her book, Lifespan Integration: Connecting Ego States through Time, in 2003. After her book was published Pace received many requests from psychotherapists who wished to learn this revolutionary new method for healing psychological trauma. In response to these invitations, Pace traveled and taught her method to therapists in many parts of the US, Canada, France, Spain, Sweden, England, Ireland, and Russia. Today Lifespan Integration training courses are being offered in many countries.

Klappentext

This book overviews a revolutionary new method of psychotherapy, Lifespan Integration, which Peggy Pace developed beginning in 2002. Lifespan Integration (LI) is an efficient body-based psychotherapeutic method which helps clients recover from traumatic events including childhood neglect and abuse. Lifespan Integration therapy differs from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in that LI bypasses the cognitive mind, and allows ‘learning’ to take place at the body level. ‘Watching’ repetitions of the life narrative permits the client’s neural system to weave new ‘information’ about the passage of time into existing neural networks throughout the body-mind. This re-structuring and re-patterning within existing neural networks retains the memories of past events while incorporating the ‘understanding’ that time has passed. In this book Pace describes the Lifespan Integration method, and cites recent discoveries in the field of neuroscience to support her hypothesis about how and why the Lifespan Integration technique is so effective. This book is not intended to be instructional. Therapists should not attempt to use the Lifespan Integration method until they have completed a Lifespan Integration training program.