Abstract
When we experience life events with overwhelming emotional pain, we can escape this pain by making decisions (in our mind) that transfer responsibility from our existence to the surrounding world. By doing this, we slowly destroy the essence of our being, health, quality of life, and ability to function. The case of Anna is an excellent example of such a systematic destruction of self, done to survive the extreme pressure from childhood abuse and sexual abuse. The case study shows that the damage done to us by traumatic events is not on our body or soul, but rather our philosophy of life. The important consequence is that we can heal our existence by letting go of the negative decisions taken in the past painful and traumatic situations. By letting go of the life-denying sentences, we come back to life and take responsibility for our own life and existence. The healing of Annas existence was done by existential holistic therapy. Although the processing did not always run smoothly, as she projected very charged material on the therapists on several occasions, the process resulted in full health and a good quality of life due to her own will to recover and heal completely. The case illustrates the inner logic and complexity of intensive holistic therapy at the most difficult moment, where only a combination of intensive medical, psychiatric, and sexological treatment could set her free. In the paper, we also present a meta-perspective on intensive holistic therapy and its most characteristic phases.
Highlights
In order to find a way to rehabilitate victims of childhood sexual maltreatment, many forms of therapy have been used[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14], but not always with satisfactory results
Anna was a borderline patient[15,16,17], student, 22 years of age, who had completely repressed over 100 episodes of childhood sexual abuse
The therapy was based on the quality of life philosophy[24,25,26,27,28,29, 30,31] and theoretically based on the life mission theory[23], the theory of ego[32], the theory of talent[33], the theory of the evil side of man[34], the theory of human character[35], and the holistic process theory of healing[18]
Summary
In order to find a way to rehabilitate victims of childhood sexual maltreatment, many forms of therapy have been used[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14], but not always with satisfactory results. Just before the end of the therapy, Anna had a severe existential crisis, where she confronted the value of her own life and she decided to live and accept life as it is, including the shadow of herself and the experiences of evil in her personal history When she was healed at the end of therapy, she had to go to the bottom of the scale to confront death with her totality, to win life and assume full responsibility and her freedom, which was lost in the past. Unconscious, in coma (denying the body) Physically dying, suicidal, evil and destructive
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