Summary of Robin Shapiro's Easy Ego State Interventions

By IRB Media

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:

#1 Ego states are bundles of neural connections that hold consistent patterns of information, affect, attention, behavior, and sometimes identity, which belong to specific developmental ages or situations.

#2 When humans are overwhelmed, they may turn to a neutral state and then switch to an agitated or immobilized state in minutes. The traumatized may create a neural imprint of the traumatic experience, and their ego state may become a dissociative state, disconnected to the present time while holding the behaviors, thoughts, and feelings tied to past situations and past identities.

#3 Ego state work can: bring a mature adult state to the front to deal with people, situations, and emotions; heal trauma by creating a true dual attention between parts stuck in a traumatic event and the here-and-now adult in the relatively safe world; bring former resources to current situations.

#4 When doing ego state work, therapists tend to focus on two states: positive resourced ego states and dysfunctional, reactive, not-connected-to-present-reality states. Resourced states can be the grown-up, capable ego states and, if dissociative, ANPs Apparently Normal Parts that take care of the business of daily life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 12, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822516007

IRB Media

With IRB books, you can get the key takeaways and analysis of a book in 15 minutes. We read every chapter, identify the key takeaways and analyze them for your convenience.

Book preview

Insights on Robin Shapiro's Easy Ego State Interventions

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Ego states are bundles of neural connections that hold consistent patterns of information, affect, attention, behavior, and sometimes identity, which belong to specific developmental ages or situations.

#2

When humans are overwhelmed, they may turn to a neutral state and then switch to an agitated or immobilized state in minutes. The traumatized may create a neural imprint of the traumatic experience, and their ego state may become a dissociative state, disconnected to the present time while holding the behaviors, thoughts, and feelings tied to past situations and past identities.

#3

Ego state work can: bring a mature adult state to the front to deal with people, situations, and emotions; heal trauma by creating a true dual attention between parts stuck in a traumatic event and the here-and-now adult in the relatively safe world; bring former resources to current situations.

#4

When doing ego state work, therapists tend to focus on two states: positive resourced ego states and dysfunctional, reactive, not-connected-to-present-reality states. Resourced states can