title: Collaborating With the Fortress Around Early Childhood Trauma: A Depth Psychotherapy Process.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  A depth psychotherapy process is a deepening of experience facilitating access into a fortress of body and mind defenses that aims to protect although may imprison the adult survivor of early childhood trauma.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  When psychotherapy moves beyond managing manifest symptoms and behavior, individuals have an opportunity to connect with their authentic self and experience wholeness in their personality and relationships.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A theoretical and practical approach including the therapeutic frame, therapeutic alliance, and body psychotherapy attempts to collaborate with a fortress to encourage its cooperation in the release of its captive.
authors.affiliation: Katherine May, PMHCNS-BC, is a Depth Psychotherapist, The Center for Depth Psychotherapy, PLC USA, Winchester, Virginia, USA.|Adjunct Clinical Instructor, Psychiatric and Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program, Shenandoah University, Winchester, Virginia, USA.
authors.forename: Katherine
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: May
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000069586:Adult Survivors of Child Adverse Events / Q000523:psychology*; D001828:Body Image / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*
keywords: Body psychotherapy; childhood trauma; fortress; narrative inquiry; therapeutic alliance