Vivian Broughton – författare

Trauma is a situation where one is not in control of one's life. This book is about becoming the author and authority, rather than a hostage, of your life.We think of trauma as the big and obvious events, such as major catastrophes like 9/11 or a tsunami, or as childhood abuse and neglect. These are important of course, but there is another potential trauma that is rarely talked about. It happens at a time that we do not remember and cannot discuss. This is 'symbiotic trauma', the trauma of coming into a less than welcoming world at the beginning of life. It is a trauma that happens before memory, in that pre-verbal time of our existence, and it influences us profoundly, including our capacity for dealing with later traumas.This handbook will take you on a journey of hope. Trauma can be healed and resolved. You can't do all the work of healing your trauma on your own, but this handbook gives you some basics to help you on your way, and gives you some pointers to finding the appropriate help.Vivian Broughton has been a psychotherapist in private practice since 1989. She has developed her current work along the model proposed by Franz Ruppert in which unresolved trauma, particularly early attachment trauma and the entanglement with earlier systemic traumas, underlies all of our psychological difficulties.

This is the second book by Professor Franz Ruppert in English translation and continues his exploration of the impact of trauma across generations. Here he deepens his understanding of the process and function of psychological splitting as a natural response to traumatic events, exploring in detail the results such survival strategies have on the traumatised person and those with whom they are in close contact. His contention is that it is only by understanding in detail the processes involved, and developing an ability to recognise trauma, survival strategies and the healthy aspects of our clients, that we can successfully work with trauma as a personal experience and as an inheritance from our family system.There are detailed examples of case studies illustrating the process of the disintegration of the survival psychological structure and the subsequent integration of the fragmentation.In addition Ruppert gives a very useful account of his thinking about the methodology of Constellations as a means of achieving understanding and integration.

This is the third book by Professor Franz Ruppert to be translated into English. In it he explores the relationship between our symbiotic interconnectedness and our ability to be autonomous in our lives. The relationship between these two aspects of being is absolutely influenced by early attachment trauma, what Ruppert has termed 'symbiotic trauma': the trauma of an infant attempting to connect with a mother who is herself already traumatised.Additionally Ruppert gives a detailed account of the 'Constellation of the Intention', the process he has devised for working with the psychological splits induced by trauma. This is a particular form of constellation that addresses issues of fragmentation. For those interested in trauma, and understanding how to work with it, this is truly groundbreaking work.Ruppert's thinking draws on many historical roots but is, even so, particularly unique. It takes us outside our normal ways of thinking about trauma, attachment and what it means to be a human being.

This is the fourth book by Professor Franz Ruppert translated into English from the German original. In it Ruppert continues his exploration of the impact of trauma on human beings that has been the topic of his previous books. This book looks at the structure and functioning of the psyche, and how traumas influence psychological functioning. He takes a holistic stance, understanding the psyche as part of the psychosomatic system and shows how the separation of mind and body is impossible, illogical, and unhelpful. Traumas are always psychosomatic events, whether seemingly a physical trauma or a psychological trauma. Using many case examples, Ruppert explores the underlying issue of relational trauma, the perpetrator/victim dynamics at play. His exploration and developed theories of perpetrator and victim look deeply into the nature, origins and rationale of perpetration as, in itself, a result of traumatisation. It is not helpful to think of perpetrators as just 'evil'; we have to understand how the person becomes a perpetrator, the context of the perpetrator, sometimes over several generations. This is an exciting book. Ruppert has the ability to reach beyond the conventional boundaries of psychotherapeutic thinking, questioning some of our basic assumptions and building on our accumulated knowledge. He brings a sharp, scientific eye to the complex world of consciousness and the psyche, the results of which can only enhance our understanding.

Professor Dr Franz Ruppert is known for his groundbreaking theoretical work with trauma and identity, under the title of Identity-oriented Psychotraumatology Therapy (IoPT). Building on the developments laid out in his eight previous books (five of which are translated into English), this book focusses on physical illness as the natural end result of longterm unresolved emotional trauma.The premise is that `physical illnesses', whether structural problems, chronic illnesses, undefinable malaise or nameable diseases, are likely to have as their foundations some form of very early psychological traumatisation.The book is a collection of essays, starting with an overview by Professor Ruppert from the perspective of IoPT theory, followed by an essay by Dr Harald Banzhaf, Medical Head of the Healing Centre Zollernalb, Germany, who illustrates at length how current scientific and medical developments support Ruppert's theories and thinking.The other 23 essays are written by practitioners who work with IoPT theory and method, bringing their own particular interest and expertise to understanding the origins of a variety of physical complaints in early emotional traumas.My Body, My Trauma, My I provides a further link in our understanding of ourselves as human beings, who we are, and why we suffer from the ailments that we do..

What is human sexuality? As the source of life why is it also often the cause of so much suffering?The renowned psychotherapist Professor Dr Franz Ruppert shows in this book how sexual traumas come about, from the perspective of the victim and the perpetrator, with profound consequences for individuals, families and entire societies.With his development of Identity-Oriented Psychotrauma Therapy (IOPT) it becomes possible to raise awareness of sexual psychotrauma using The Intention Method, and to resolve it psychologically and emotionally. Sexuality can then again be experienced as a creative force that gives pleasure and helps to achieve a healthy identity.

Professor Dr Franz Ruppert's latest book is part personal account and part an update of his theoretical thinking, specifically as it relates to our society.Identity-oriented Psychotraumatology Therapy (IoPT), developed by Professor Ruppert over the last 25 years, is established as a new way of thinking about trauma, and its influence on our individual lives, and now, this new book looks at its influence on society as a whole. We know through Professor Ruppert's work, that trauma, particularly traumas that happen at the very beginning of life, have a profound influence on the lives of most of us... and we are our society. All of our societal institutions, such as our political system, our legal and justice systems, our physical and mental health systems as they currently are, are made up of us and people like us, and so have an influence on our lives, that often is in fact traumatising.Professor Ruppert makes a specific focus on the dynamics of perpetration and victimisation as the cyclic forces that hold us in a continually traumatising and re-traumatising world that it is hard to step away from. However to recognise within ourselves our ability to function as a perpetrator, as a way of not connecting with our trauma, brings us to a responsibility for our place in society and our connection with others, and is beneficial for our own well-being.At the end of the book Ruppert discusses the idea of having a clear psyche, and thereby connecting with others who also work with their traumas to clear their psyches, and suggests that by this means we can create the society that we want.

This book will be of interest to a range of people who are interested in understanding a systemic view of ourselves. Psychotherapists and counsellors, organisational consultants and business people. The book is a basic text on working with a systemic perspect and with the methodology of Systemic Constellations, originated by the German philosopher and psychotherapist Bert Hellinger. It draws extensively on the work of Franz Ruppert, understanding trauma processes across generations, and many other prominent practitioners of systemic constellations.

This book will be of interest to those who work with trauma, who have an interest in understanding new ways of looking at the role of trauma in our lives and finding resolutions to trauma. Vivian Broughton follows the theoretical and practical work of Professor Franz Ruppert, the German psychologist who has devoted his work to understanding the dynamics of trauma. The book sets out a history of trauma study, Ruppert's theories and developments that include early attachment trauma and the transgenerational impact of historical family traumas, and the methodology of the Constellation of the Intention as the means to find resolution from trauma. Vivian brings her own perspective to Ruppert's work including extensive thoughts from a psychotherapeutic perspective. However the book is not overly academic and aims to inform anyone, professional therapist or not, on the general topic of the impact of trauma on the individual and society.

In this book Vivian Broughton brings together all the important theoretical concepts on the topics of trauma, trauma survival and identity, developed by Professor Dr Franz Ruppert over the past 30 years, known as Identity Oriented Psychotrauma Therapy (IOPT). This book is likely to be of interest to therapists and professionals who work with people and their life difficulties, as well as anyone interested in understanding themselves better. Trauma underlies most of people's life problems, in particular traumas that happen very early in life. For the newly created infant the experience of not being wanted, not being seen, welcomed, loved and valued for who he or she really is, makes for a deeply devastating start to life. These early traumatic experiences then stay, buried deep in the psyche, and inform and influence the person's ability to function as an adult, to feel confident, form good relationships and be happy. The essence of living a good life is based on our ability to know who we are, and trauma, more than anything else, is what disrupts and even destroys this ability. Vivian is a Gestalt psychotherapist with over 30 years' experience. She has worked with IOPT concepts and the Intention Method therapeutic practice for over 15 years. She brings to this book her long experience as a psychotherapist and as an IOPT Psychotrauma therapist, together with her own particular thinking about Ruppert's work.

This book is primarily about love; love as the basic force of life; love that is lost or never born in the relationship between mother and infant; love that is the underlying need of the child; love that is delusionary, holding us in endless hope; and love that is honest and true, based on reality, and then possible in our relationship with ourselves, and those we truly love. Love is the turning point from trauma to health.This is a varied collection of thoughts and ideas, some full-length essays, and some short statements, all of which have IoPT (Identity-oriented Psychotrauma Therapy) thinking underlying them.Becoming 'IoPT-Informed' does indeed take us on a journey where everything in the world can be considered through the lens of IoPT thinking. IoPT then becomes not just a theory and a therapeutic method, but a psychology and a philosophy that can inform and explain what happens in our own personal world, and in the wider political and social world. All of the major topics we are collectively struggling with every single day, and those personal musings about our own life... all can be considered from an IoPT perspective.This is a book above all to be enjoyed, and from which perhaps to learn something more about who we really are, individually and collectively.

In diesem Buch stellt Vivian Broughton alle wichtigen theoretischen Konzepte vor, die Prof. Dr. Franz Ruppert in den letzten dreißig Jahren über die Themen Trauma, Trauma-Überleben und Identität entwickelt hat. Sie sind bekannt als Identitätsorientierte Psychotraumatherapie (IoPT). Dieses Buch ist nicht nur für diejenigen, die professionell mit Menschen und deren Lebensnöten arbeiten, gedacht und geschrieben worden, sondern auch für jeden Menschen, der sich selbst besser verstehen will. Den meisten Problemen im menschlichen Leben liegen Traumata zugrunde, insbesondere Traumata, die sehr früh im Leben geschehen. Die Erfahrung, nicht gewollt, nicht gesehen, nicht willkommen geheißen, geliebt und wertgeschätzt zu werden, bedeutet für das neu entstandene Kind einen zutiefst verstörenden Start ins Leben. Diese frühen traumatischen Erfahrungen bleiben tief vergraben in der Psyche und prägen und beeinflussen die Fähigkeit der Menschen, sich selbstsicher zu fühlen, gute Beziehungen zu führen, glücklich zu sein und als Erwachsene gut zu funktionieren. Die Essenz, ein gutes Leben zu leben, basiert auf unserer Fähigkeit, zu wissen, wer wir sind. Mehr als alles andere sprengt und zerstört Trauma diese Fähigkeit. Vivian hat mehr als dreißig Jahre als Gestalttherapeutin gearbeitet und arbeitet inzwischen seit mehr als fünfzehn Jahren mit den IoPT-Konzepten und der Anliegenmethode. Ihre langjährige Erfahrung als Psychotherapeutin und IoPT-Trauma Therapeutin lässt sie in dieses Buch ebenso mit einfließen wie ihre persönlichen Gedanken zu Franz Rupperts Arbeit.

Identitets-orientert Psykotraume Teori og terapeutisk praksis (IoPT) er utviklet av Franz Ruppert, psykoterapeut og professor i psykologi ved Universitetet for anvendt vitenskap i München. Dette er en omfattende teori om psykiske og emosjonelle traumer, koblet sammen med en effektiv behandlingsmetode. Denne bokas formål er å gi en kortfattet og leservennlig introduksjon til disse ideene, og på den måten å bringe dette livsviktige temaet videre mot større oppmerksomhet.Selv om denne håndboken er ganske liten, så er den et resultat av et historisk svært omfattende og langsiktig psykologisk utviklingsarbeid i vår vestlige kulturkrets. Den har et stort, frigjørende potensial. Vi lever i en tid hvor vi mer enn noen gang trenger denne kunnskapen om vår menneskelighet, både vår sårbarhet og vår evne til selv å skape oss et godt liv. Den nye, helhetlige traumepsykologien som denne boken formidler kan både hjelpe oss å forstå oss selv bedre, og gi oss konkrete holdepunkter for å arbeide med traumene våre og gjøre livet bedre for oss selv.

Det har gått ett antal år sedan jag gav ut boken på engelska och i Storbritannien har den blivit mycket efterfrågad, som en hjälp för människor att förstå trauma som företeelse. Det pratas ofta om trauma nuförtiden, men det saknas en gemensam förståelse för vad trauma är, hur det påverkar oss och hur vi kan behandla traumatiserande erfarenheter. Traumatiserande erfarenheter är djupt personliga och att arbeta med dem kräver mod och uthållighet. Du är den ende som kan läka ditt trauma och jag den enda som kan läka mitt. Ingen annan kan befria dig från den starka känsla av hjälplöshet och utsatthet som trauman väcker. Vi måste hjälpa oss själva, vi måste hitta sätt att återfå kontakt med hela vårt jag. Att förneka någon del av oss är att förneka hela oss, vi kan inte välja och vraka. Den här boken är ett försök att hjälpa dig förstå trauman och hur du kan arbeta med dem. Du kan inte göra allt på egen hand, vid en viss tidpunkt kommer du att behöva arbeta med en terapeut som delar denna förståelse för trauman. Men att förstå traumatiska erfarenheters dynamik och hur det ser ut i just ditt fall kommer att hjälpa dig en bit på vägen. Vivian Broughton Detta är den första introduktionen på svenska i Franz Rupperts teori om identitetsorienterad psykotraumaterapi och den terapeutiska metod han arbetar med. Barbara och Johan Gamper som har översatt och fackgranskat boken är legitimerade psykologer och utbildade i metoden. Boken är också översatt till nederländska och tyska.