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Arnon Bentovim - Episteme

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Impact of traumatic experiences on<br />

development – dynamic narratives<br />

• Attachment trauma life-span impact of cumulative adversity<br />

• failure of mentalisation –the loss of a capacity to symbolise mental<br />

states –understand one’s own and others thinking or feeling<br />

• Fails to distinguish between internal and external reality<br />

• Dissociated from reality- loss of memory – false self/reality<br />

formation<br />

• Traumatic bonding –disorganised attachments –clinging to abusive<br />

parents –<br />

• Identification with the abuser –the perspective of the malevolent<br />

other- an alien being in the self representation

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