Dr. Herbert Grassmann & Liz Stewart continue their discussion of TraumaSomatics
TraumaSomatics® is a therapeutic method that is based on the reorganization of somatic memory located in what we call the SomaNet. An essential characteristic of this therapeutic method is that we work with somatic sensations and movements to resolve somatic traces of the traumatic experience. Both the calming down of the nervous system and changes in the structural and molecular net contribute to these processes.
hear the hole interview (14/June/07) on podcast: http://www.insidesi.com/2007/06/14/traumasomatics-more-with-dr-herbert-grassmann-liz-stewart/
The principle of the working window
It is also the therapist’s task to control the process in a way that it stays in a so-called “working window” so that the client isn’t retraumatized. We do this by a technique called “temporary containment” which is based on a system that separates somatic sensations, symptoms and movements into stress and trauma reactions: The Soma Net as somatic memory system. According to Janet the individual can be regarded as an accumulation of memories. Commonly, we associate memory functions with the brain. From therapeutic work we know that the soma contains an isolated and independent memory function that reveals memories uncoupled from consciousness. The SomaNet is thesubstrate of this somatic memory system. In a confined part of the soma this can cause impairment of sen-sory and motor function, linking dissociation phenomena with the molecules of emotions.
