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"Trauma is the most avoided, ignored, denied, misunderstood and untreated cause of human suffering. {...}

For now, I will simply say that almost all of us have experienced some form of trauma, directly or indirectly. {...} 

In short, trauma is about loss of connection--to ourselves , to our bodies, to our families, to others, and to the world around us." - Dr. Peter Levine.

 Integration occurs when a traumatic memory has been properly stored in your brain. It means that the traumatic memory gets properly stored, so that you no longer get affected by it in your day-to-day experiences. A traumatized brain struggles to integrate traumatic experiences into correctly stored memories.

“The original traumatic situation posed such a danger to personality survival that it was not retained in memorable personal form but only in a “diamonic” archetype form. This is the collective or “magical” layer of unconscious and cannot be assimilated by the ego until it has been incarnated in a human interaction. As archetypal dynamism it “exists” in a form that cannot be recovered by the ego except as an experience of re-traumatization. Or, to put it another way, the unconscious repetition of traumatization in the inner world which goes on incessantly must become real traumatization with an object in the world if the inner system is to be “unlocked."  - Donald Kalsched

“This interaction is an opportunity to repeat in original trauma in a new way, to bring it all the way into consciousness, thereby dissolving the defense mechanism (that the false self) created by the early experience of trauma. This can only happen, however, if the individual recognizes the “incarnation” of trauma for what is, “an image from the past personified in the present” as a means to be understood and assimilated, dissolved through exposure to consciousness. Ideally, this is what occurs in the psychotherapeutic process through “transference.” Transference is when a safe space is created by the analyst for the analysis and to re-experience an original trauma with minimal risk of re-traumatization Re-Traumatization is the result of misattributing the distress that arises during the therapeutic process to present cause, rather than correctly tracing it back to the past and integrating it”- Jasun Horsely