Sharon K. Farber Ph.D.
Sharon K .Farber, Ph.D. is in private practice in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. She has taught at medical schools, schools of social work, training institutes, and the Cape Cod Institute and has been an invited speaker in the U.S., Canada, U.K. and Israel.
She is author of several papers and three books: When the Body Is the Target: Self-Harm, Pain, and Traumatic Attachments (2000, 2002), Hungry for Ecstasy: Trauma, the Brain, and the Influence of the Sixties (2013), and Celebrating the Wounded Healer Psychotherapist: Pain, Post-Traumatic Growth and Self-Disclosure (in press).
Her blog for Psychology Today, the Mind-Body Connection, can be found online at
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-mind-body-connection
She is author of several papers and three books: When the Body Is the Target: Self-Harm, Pain, and Traumatic Attachments (2000, 2002), Hungry for Ecstasy: Trauma, the Brain, and the Influence of the Sixties (2013), and Celebrating the Wounded Healer Psychotherapist: Pain, Post-Traumatic Growth and Self-Disclosure (in press).
Her blog for Psychology Today, the Mind-Body Connection, can be found online at
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-mind-body-connection
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scientific explanation, many paranormal experiences can be understood scientifically as the type of
unconscious affective communication about which there is a growing body of scientific research and
evidence. An information-processing model illuminates how a patient’s dissociated attempts to
communicate through sensory experiences may be converted to the verbal symbolic via the analyst’s
use of evoked images in the dissociative process. Understanding projective identification as a
dissociative process of communication by which the patient projected his own unacceptable emotions
into the analyst, who could then know experientially what the patient was feeling, can be
understood scientifically as telepathic communication. When a patient experiences the effects of
severe trauma and is very dissociative, as in the case presented, it is difficult to track and reflect upon
these processes as they occur, making it virtually impossible to become and remain empathically
attuned to his many self states. In the dissociative attunement deconstructed here, the therapist–
patient dyad resonated increasingly in a telepathic attunement, despite much discord and confusion
scientific explanation, many paranormal experiences can be understood scientifically as the type of
unconscious affective communication about which there is a growing body of scientific research and
evidence. An information-processing model illuminates how a patient’s dissociated attempts to
communicate through sensory experiences may be converted to the verbal symbolic via the analyst’s
use of evoked images in the dissociative process. Understanding projective identification as a
dissociative process of communication by which the patient projected his own unacceptable emotions
into the analyst, who could then know experientially what the patient was feeling, can be
understood scientifically as telepathic communication. When a patient experiences the effects of
severe trauma and is very dissociative, as in the case presented, it is difficult to track and reflect upon
these processes as they occur, making it virtually impossible to become and remain empathically
attuned to his many self states. In the dissociative attunement deconstructed here, the therapist–
patient dyad resonated increasingly in a telepathic attunement, despite much discord and confusion