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Abstract
The author, whose experiential training in regressive therapy took place at the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Center, with the Schiff family, and at Cathexis Institute, presents his current work with self-directed regressive therapy in the reintegration of dissociatively defended personalities. He examines the two models of regressive therapy that were practiced at the aforementioned settings—fully supported residential regressions and highly structured, short-term, outpatient regressions—and offers reasons why he no longer practices the regressive therapy and reparenting techniques employed in those models. The author presents a brief discussion of dissociative defenses and outlines his model of self-directed, regressive reintegration of dissociatively defended personalities. The ego state model employed is the three ego states model.
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Eric Sigmund
Eric William Sigmund has a master's degree in clinical psychology and is an Certified Transactional Analyst with a clinical speciality. He was a corecipient of the 1980 Eric Berne Memorial Scientific Award, has served on the ITAA board of trustees, and is currently a member of the editorial board of the Transactional Analysis Journal. Mr. Sigmund has practices on Maui and on the Big Island of Hawaii.