أثر البصمات الصدمية المبكرة : دراسة حالة رهاب الأماكن المغلقة من منظور العلاج بإزالة التحسس و إعادة المعالجة بحركة الأعين(EMDR)‎

Abstract EN

This article presents a claustrophobia case treated with Eye movement desensitization reprocessing therapy (EMDR).

It illustrates the central place of the body in keeping raw traumatic experiences active long time after their occurrence.

It is about the memory of early traumatic experiences called early imprints, which may happen before birth until the third year of one’s life.

Babies’ record early negative experiences in a sensory, somatic and emotional way.

The stored content is mostly implicit and not voluntarily evocable.

However, it may continue to react and appear as sensory impressions or psychological distress symptoms.

whenever the body is placed in conditions similar to the initial early traumatic experience.This case experienced an early traumatic experience that led to automatically link danger feelings to closed and narrow situations, and whenever she faces the same situations, she feels threatened, her reactions evolved to claustrophobia symptoms, which were only traumatic reactions.

EMDR therapeutic intervention concluded with the treatment of early traumatic imprints, mainly the fact the she was born within the amniotic membrane, and her attachment wounds.

Therefore, claustrophobia symptoms gradually disappeared, including asphyxia sensation, patient’s self-esteem improved, and so her maturity and autonomy