Early Trauma

Professor Dr Franz Ruppert, is Professor of Psychology at the University of Applied Sciences in Munich, Germany. He gained his PhD in Work and Organisational Psychology at the Technical University of Munich in 1985.Since 1995 he has specialised in psychotherapeutic work, with a particular focus on the aetiology of severe mental disorders. This has led him to an in depth study of attachment processes and trauma and the resulting impact of early traumatisation on the infant. His publications include: Verwirrte Seelen (2002, Kosel, Munich), (Confused Souls, not available in English), followed by four books translated from German into English: Trauma, Bonding & Family Constellations: Understanding and Healing Injuries of the Soul (2008), Splits in the Soul: Integrating Traumatic Experiences (2011), Symbiosis & Autonomy: Symbiotic Trauma and Love Beyond Entanglements (2012), Trauma, Fear and Love; How the Constellation of the Intention Supports Healthy Autonomy (2014) all published in English by Green Balloon Publishing, Steyning, UK.Ruppert teaches in Germany and many other countries including Brazil, Canada, Britain, Ireland, Italy, Russia, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Turkey and Spain, furthering his insights into the deeper transgenerational effects of trauma in different cultures, and researching the methodology of constellations as a means of better understanding the effects and healing of trauma.

• 1 Early Traumatisation and the 'Constellation of the Intention'; 2 Conception as a source of early trauma; 3 Maternal ambivalence during pregnancy; 4 Unfulfilled desire to have children.; 5 Abortions and Trauma; 6 Traumatic Experiences in the Womb; 7 Pregnancy and giving birth from the perspective of multi-generational psychotraumatology; 8 Premature birth as the result and cause of traumatisations; 9 The process of separation and re-bonding: the final birth phase; 10 Miscarriages and stillbirths as trauma; 11 'Psychosis' following the birth; 12 Mothers caught between wanting to have a career, having financial difficulties and making time for their children; 13 Growing up with grandparents as an early trauma; 14 Violence instead of love from the very start; 15 Early trauma, adoption and foster parents; 16 Eating disorders as a consequence of early traumatisation; 17 'Anorexia' and early trauma; 18 Symbiotic Trauma in the Individual Setting; 19 Healing and prevention of early traumas.