06/08/2021
Update: Pls see link below in comments to the full interview with Donald Kalsched by Daniela Sieff 🙏
"The psyche's internal response to trauma sets up defences that cause immense pain, but this very defence system is also a survival system designed to save the person's life. The essence of the child - the creative, relational, authentic spark of life which is at the very core - goes into hiding, deep in the unconscious. While at the same time, another part of the child's psyche grows up prematurely and becomes a rigid adaptive self...protecting the core of the self by hiding it...
Healing only becomes possible once we take responsibility for the life-denying, limiting and self-destructive system that we have constructed, and when we grieve for the trauma that our self-created defences have inflicted upon ourselves"
(Donald Kalsched in "Unlocking the secrets of the wounded psyche: The miraculous survival system that is also a prison" by Donald Kalsched & Daniela Sieff)
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