Restructuring personality and attachment patterns: P-A-C schema and EMDR therapy with adults

Attachment-Focused Trauma Therapy for Adult (AFTT-A) adapts Parent-Adult-Child (P-A-C) schema for a multimodal, step-by-step approach to restructuring the internal personality system by differentiating Child parts of Self from unhelpful versions of Parent and Adult parts as part of EMDR phase 2. Through EMDR resource work, unmet childhood needs for nurturing and protection can be met within clients themselves, strengthening the Competent Adult part to be in charge of inner and external attachments, and transforming parts into healthier versions that play more helpful roles; thus enabling clients to move toward the earned “secure” end of the attachment continuum and choose healthier patterns in relationships. The model espouses some unique basic assumptions, including a core concept that every client retains a “spiritual essence,” a core of goodness, present from birth and the unshakeable belief that clients have within themselves all the resources and strengths needed for health and healing.

Conference

English

Debra Wesselmann
Ann E. Potter

Wesselmann, D., & Potter, A. E. (2022, November). Restructuring personality and attachment patterns: P-A-C schema and EMDR therapy with adults. Presentation at the Annual EMDRNZ Conference, Wellington, New Zealand