Clinical Holistic Medicine: How to Recover Memory Without “Implanting” Memories in Your Patient

Søren Ventegodt,Joav Merrick,Isack Kandel

doi:10.1100/tsw.2007.237

Abstract

Every therapeutic strategy and system teach us the philosophy of the treatment system to the patient, but often this teaching is subliminal and the philosophical impact must be seen as “implanted philosophy”, which gives distorted interpretations of past events called “implanted memories”. Based on the understanding of the connection between “implanted memory” and “implanted philosophy” we have developed a strategy for avoiding implanting memories arising from one of the seven most common causes of implanted memories in psychodynamic therapy: 1) Satisfying own expectancies, 2) pleasing the therapist, 3) transferences and counter transferences, 4) as source of mental and emotional order, 5) as emotional defence, 6) as symbol and 7) from implanted philosophy. Freud taught us that child sexuality is “polymorphously perverted”, meaning that all kinds of sexuality is present at least potentially with the little child; and in dreams consciousness often go back to the earlier stages of development, potentially causing all kinds of sexual dreams and fantasies, which can come up in therapy and look like real memories. The therapist working with psychodynamic psychotherapy, clinical holistic medicine, psychiatry, and emotionally oriented bodywork, should be aware of the danger of implanting philosophy and memories. Implanted memories and implanted philosophy must be carefully handled and de-learned before ending the therapy. In conclusion “clinical holistic medicine” has developed a strategy for avoiding implanting memories.

Highlights

During the last decade there has been an intense and ongoing debate in the medical scientific community about therapy and implanted memories[1,2]
We found a simple solution to the complex problem of implanted memories, which is recovering the memory and sense of truth in general in the patient
The parents have been abusing the child in subtle and psychological ways,. This does not mean that there was a sexual act of objective, physical, incest like coitus, but what we could call the “symbolic incest” or “energetic incest” is often extremely painful and very harmful to a child on an emotional level

Summary

INTRODUCTION

During the last decade there has been an intense and ongoing debate in the medical scientific community about therapy and implanted memories[1,2]. The parents have been abusing the child in subtle and psychological ways, (i.e. not respecting the child’s sexual borders, or having used the child as a sexual partner, which is most often seen when a parent lives alone with a child of the opposite sex) This does not mean that there was a sexual act of objective, physical, incest like coitus, but what we could call the “symbolic incest” or “energetic incest” is often extremely painful and very harmful to a child on an emotional level. We have learned that the therapeutic process can be understood as a metamorphosis – the patient enters the therapy like a butterfly’s larvae in need of transformation; she lets go of her old identity and melts down (entering the “pupae”) In this state, she develops a new understanding from recalling what she was originally meant to be; and she enters the world again as a renewed and transformed person (free to fly like the butterfly), much more beautiful, good and true. The patient will experience a number of crises that are not dangerous to the patient assuming that the patient is cared for intensively and properly (see figure 2)

A Model for The Wholeness of Man

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