Episode 19: Trauma – The wounded soul. Early childhood trauma
Lives of the Unconscious. A Podcast on Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Trauma and Borderline Personality Disorder
A small child has not yet built up a psychological structure that protects it and into which it can organize inner and outer events to begin with an infant needs another skin that protects it. The bond with its parents is ordinarily the protection care and love that it receives from its mother father and other people if an infant receives enough love and is treated sufficiently well it begins bit by bit to form its own psychological skin. It becomes increasingly stable and resilient with the passage of time internal stirrings and external incidents no longer frighten it on such a massive scale he or she eventually finds words for what is going on both inside and outside this psychological structure our psychic skin is what holds our ego togetherwhat gives us a
