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Figure 1: The traumatised psyche

THE SPLITTING THAT OCCURS IN A HUMAN BEINGAFTER AN EXPERIENCE OF TRAUMA

© Prof. Dr. Franz Ruppert

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A particularly problematic feature of a traumatised psyche is that it resists knowing and understanding that it has indeed suffered traumatic damage. Instead, it retreats into a world full of illusions. When asked ‘Who am I?’ it takes refuge in identifications (‘I am German! I am a doctor! I support XY!’) and lets attributions (for example disease diagnoses) wash over it without resistance. If a person has a traumatised psyche they are fixated on the external. They lose themselves in associative, monologue-based speech, pointless arguing and fighting and blindly doing things.

Traumatised people experience themselves and their fellow human beings as a big problem. They trust no one and hide behind thick inner protective walls. They numb themselves with drugs, medication and addictive behaviour. They think they have to control and monitor others all the time, because this is what they do to themselves. Everyday, with every action they take, they fuel their own unhappiness and cause their fellow human beings a lot of stress.