Growth in regression therapy

Erik Götlind?s findings and ideas and the development of GRT are drawn from over40 years of clinical experience from therapies or supervision of therapies withpsychotic patients, and others with severe deficit pathology, including severepersonality disorders or severe depressions, and also people w [...]
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Erik Götlind?s findings and ideas and the development of GRT are drawn from over40 years of clinical experience from therapies or supervision of therapies withpsychotic patients, and others with severe deficit pathology, including severepersonality disorders or severe depressions, and also people with a basically neuroticpersonality structure but who nevertheless also suffer from deficit pathology.Growth in Regression Therapy (GRT) is based on the clinical finding that it ispossible, in a person who suffered from early maternal deprivation, to recapitulatetherapeutically the first years of life again, in a partially regressed state lasting severalmonths, the early process phase of the GRT. During this time he or she receives, in anurturing caring relationship, the close human contact that was originally lacking, andthus the original state of deficit is repaired or undone. Thereafter the patient continuesin the growth process out of the regression. Thus GRT is a self-strengtheningtechnique. This finding is basically in contradiction to the traditionally heldpsychoanalytic view. The process takes place at a very deep, almost biological levelof attachment.GRT has immensely broadened the scope of our possibilities to work with theseconditions psychotherapeutically. Moreover, having gone through this form oftherapy initially, many of these patients are then able to tolerate intensive in-depthexplorative therapy which very often would not have been possible before, due to aninsufficiently strong self or ego structure, and at best achieve full healing.Thus GRT adds a qualitatively new dimension to psychotherapy, that is, it is morethan just a new alternative technique among many others. In many patients it can beseen as an essential and decisive element and phase in a long term on-goingpsychotherapeutic process.