When we start to understand and experience of the “traumatic reenactment”.
The memories of the traumatic experiences are dissociated, nonverbal, and unintegrated. Over and over, people find themselves in situations that recapitulate earlier trauma and lack any awareness of how it happened much less how to prevent it from happening the next time. The lack of awareness is due to the dissociative blockade that places the behaviour out of the context of verbal and conscious control. Since words are not available to sufficiently explain the experience, thinking cannot really occur. Under these circumstances, people will usually come up with explanations for their strange and mysterious behaviour, because the rational part of their mind is struggling to make sense of the situation. But without access to the dissociated material, the rational mind flounders helplessly, interpreting behaviour in a simplistic, often crazy,disjointed way, while the person helplessly re-exposes himself or herself to further trauma. We understand that to make contact and converse with the reenactment is a way of dealing with this powerful behavioural force of childhood memory which is couched in the terms of early childhood. Hence we wish to contact the child within the originator/storer of the original traumatic events.
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