Screen technology
The screen technology (also Screen technology or video art) is a psychotherapeutic technique for trauma healing and strengthening of the resources . After preliminary work by a number of other psychologists and psychotherapists, it was recommended by Frank Putnam in 1989, from which in 1998 Ulrich Sachsse and later Lutz-Ulrich Besser continued their own refinements and further developments.
Use in trauma therapy
The method is used, for example, in hypnotherapy , or in trauma therapy combined with psychodynamic imaginative trauma therapy by Luise Reddemann in the last phase of the therapeutic process, the so-called trauma confrontation.
Before a patient can begin, he must have achieved a sufficient level of personal stability to ensure his or her safety. Working with screen technology requires targeted, qualified preparation. In addition, internal resources such as strength, security, wisdom are made available and strengthened. Suitable methods are, for example, “safe place” (a real, experienced or idealized situation / place linked to such a situation that has conveyed a feeling of security and into which the human being can “enter” in his inner imagination at any time in order to be there strengthening), "inner helper" (an imaginary person from whom one can get strength, support and wise advice, mostly based on childlike real experiences of good powers), as well as distancing techniques, for example the "safe technique" (in which still to strong and overwhelming feelings are safely locked away in an imaginary vault for a period of time). It is not enough that a stable situation is created in the direct encounter with the therapist, but the patient must master appropriate controlling techniques beyond the therapy session, because the feelings that emerge in the screen technology can have an effect beyond the therapy session.
method
With screen technology, the patient in the trauma processing phase projects the subject of the trauma onto an "inner screen" or an imaginary screen on which he can view what is happening as a "viewer", so to speak, from a distance and in portions. With an imaginary “remote control” he can - depending on the power of the unpleasant feelings and personal strength - influence, for example on the duration of viewing, closeness, size, clarity, volume of the visible and audible, and he can confront it at any time break up. With this method, trauma can be worked through step by step. The overwhelming feelings of powerlessness, fear of death, panic, disgust, shame are increasingly learned to differentiate from feelings that serve to process (indignation, anger, sadness). A phase of inner self-confidence is required to successfully complete the processing. This clarifies which support is necessary and how this can be provided.
Screen technology is suitable for patients who can visualize processes. Compared to EMDR, it is a rather gentle form of trauma confrontation, which gives the patient a high degree of control over the processing process. It does not go as deep as the EMDR, takes longer, but is easier to control.
literature
- Luise Reddemann: Psychodynamic Imaginative Trauma Therapy. PITT - the manual (series: Learning to live 167) . 3. Edition. Pfeiffer at Klett-Cotta, 2005, ISBN 3-608-89729-1 , p. 172 .
- Luise Reddemann: Imagination as a healing force. To treat the consequences of trauma with resource-oriented procedures. (Series: Learning to Live 141) . 8th edition. Pfeiffer at Klett-Cotta, 2003, ISBN 3-608-89708-9 , p. 113 .
- Individual evidence
- ↑ On the first developments in screen technology see Katharina Sternek, On the use and mode of action of "screen technology" , Phenomenal 6 (1), pp. 20–29.
- ↑ Luise Reddemann, Arne Hoffmann, Ursula Gast (HR): Psychotherapy of dissociative disorders (Lindau Psychotherapy Module) . Georg Thieme, Stuttgart, New York 2004, ISBN 3-13-130511-8 , pp. 135 .
