Fusion Therapy
Fusion Therapy is a type of Connection Therapy developed by Joyce Martin and Pauline McCririck that helps clients overcome emotional and psychological neglect in infancy and childhood. The therapy involves close physical contact between therapist and patient during high-dose LSD sessions. [1]
Types of Connection Therapy
Connection Therapy > Fusion Therapy, Psychedelic Therapy, Psycholytic Therapy, Transpersonal Nursing
List of Healing Frameworks
Healing Framework > LP HEALING Framework, Transpersonal Nursing, Transpersonal Psychology
Related Terms
Transpersonal Nursing > Transpersonal Realm
Notes
Fusion therapy works by providing a "corrective experience." Clients neglected by parents have "their emotional wounds healed" during several hours of "close embrace", i.e, maternal/paternal contact during the LSD session.[2] Grof notes, perhaps counter intuitively, that this practice results in less transference than during regular psychoanalytic sessions where the therapist remains aloof and detached. In the former case, essential needs are finally met and the client can detach from the therapist and move on while in the latter case the aloof detached therapist tends to "reactivate the ... emotional wounds" which in turn "triggers desperate attempts on the part of the patients to get the attention and satisfaction that had been denied to them" as children.[3]
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