BODYDREAMING in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma
BodyDreaming in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma, Marian Dunlea — Just had the greatest chat with Dunlea, who is a Jungian Analyst located in Ireland. I love hearing stories about the history of Marion Woodman’s work. Dunlea has amplified it and applied it to the now better than anyone. For more info about her work visit mariandunlea.com.
“In BodyDreaming we may become aware of the relativity of our ego in relation to a growing intimation of a larger consciousness or reality inclusive of the world both within and without, and find ourselves participants in a reciprocal “unified field.“ We may experience moments of recognition during which we perceive that a pearl of great price lies buried within our sensing, feeling matter and psyche. Through attending to our matter and psyche, we develop the capacity to align with a self-regulating principle and the innate drive toward wholeness that Carl Jung addresses, working toward the fulfillment of our human and spiritual potential. However, the pearl of great price is to be honed with the material from the somatic unconscious, whose depths lie in the dark ocean, and must be brought into the light of day, into consciousness through the regulatory work of attunement and regulation, before it’s luminosity may be revealed. We begin to recognize and appreciate the reciprocity that is possible between our matter in the matter that surrounds us. In conjunction with neuroscientific research, analytical psychology, developmental psychology and somatics, Bodydreaming offers a therapeutic method of working with developmental trauma and other traumas that encompass self and inner-regulation, requiring both inner and outer attunement. In a world where psychological fragmentation and disorientation are widespread, the aim of body dreaming is to enhance our sense of rootedness and participation in the world through attunement to the regulatory life force we meet in the body, in dreams, and in relation to the other, the world in which we participate. Inner attunement promotes the growth of a steady secure base which enables us to feel our sensing bodies and psyche as participants in a wider dynamic field.”
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BODYDREAMING in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma by Marian Dunlea
