What Is Inner Child Therapy?

Inner child therapy

Inner child therapy

Inner child therapy

It has been a remarkable method of psychotherapy in recent years, and Swain (1995) even called it the inner child movement.

Chinese name

Inner child therapy

Foreign name

Inner Child Therapy

Time

1995

Object

Kids sports

The main treatment goals of Inner Child Therapy are to improve the client's self-esteem and self-worth, reduce self-pity and self-hate, and improve self-love and self-soothing. In the words of E. Mcgough (1991), it helps an individual to establish a positive therapeutic relationship with himself.

There are no unified treatment steps and techniques for the two inner child treatments, so as long as the basic concepts are consistent, therapists with different theoretical orientations can achieve their goals according to their skills and procedures. For example, Swain (1995) uses imagery, Benton (1990) uses psychodrama to assist alcoholics and their families, Cameron (1991) uses personal grief rituals, Picucci, (1992) uses role-playing, and Guyer (1995) uses hypnosis. On imagery, Mcgough (1991) encourages the writing of diaries, etc. in individual cases.

Third, although self-esteem and self-worth are the core issues of many individual cases, the complexity of the problem often does not change immediately by raising self-worth, so it is still necessary to use other treatments in combination. Or to put it another way, the problem of a case can be solved with different theories and different treatment methods. However, when dealing with the issues of self-esteem and self-worth of the case, the inner child therapy is quite effective and easy to use. .

4. When using the inner child therapy, whether the inner child refers to past trauma, childhood memory, subpersonality, red heart or inner transcendence power, the important key is that the individual can actually identify or feel the existence of the inner child.

5. In addition to the inner child, the therapist also needs to assist the client to find the inner parents or inner adult.

The Six Inner Child Therapy deals with the relationship between the individual and himself. The important thing is not what happened now or in the past, but whether the relationship between the individual and himself has changed after the incident, and how the individual treats himself. If a person is close to their relationship, life will be vibrant, creative and energetic; if the relationship is alienated, it will be easy to feel tired, powerless, and meaningless.

It is to improve individual self-esteem and self-worth, reduce self-pity and self-hate, and improve self-love and self-solace.

The earliest discussion of the concept of the inner child in the field of psychotherapy was Carl Gustav Jung, who first published The Psychology of the Child Archetype in 1940. within) refers to the prototype of the child; the first to formally use the term "inner child" was Missildine (Corrin, 1994), who published the book Your Inner Child of the Past For "Explore Your Inner Young Children", translated by Peng Haiyang, etc., published by Song of Songs, the whole book discusses the concept and treatment of inner children [user10]. Corrin (1994) compiled it in his doctoral dissertation.

However, internal child therapy is not a unified theory or method. Different scholars and practitioners often claim and use internal child therapy from different perspectives.

Different scholars or theories have different interpretations of the inner child. Psychoanalysis (including the recently developed object relationship theory) and psychological comprehensive schools are the two mainstreams. However, the "inner child" is basically a metaphor. The difference lies in the different metaphoric objects. According to the different metaphorical objects, there are roughly five types of inner children. Different types lead to different treatment directions:

The following situations are particularly effective for parties using the intrinsic child therapy:

(1) without specific reasons, but feel that life is boring, unpleasant, and lacking vitality;

(2) There is only a vague and uncomfortable feeling, but no memory related to this feeling can be found;

(3) Vaguely feel that there is distance from people, can not be intimate, and it is difficult to feel loved or moved;

(4) Feeling mentally tired and lacking meaning for current life and future;

(5) because of personal taboos, inconvenience or unwillingness to tell the story, but still need help because of pain;

(6) members of the group who refuse to state the content of the question because of fear of being leaked or criticized;

(7) The current difficulties in life involve a wide range of aspects, which are difficult to solve for a while, and need to learn to live in difficulties. ^[1]