Main description:

Professor Dr Franz Ruppert is known for his groundbreaking theoretical work with trauma and identity, under the title of Identity-oriented Psychotraumatology Therapy (IoPT).
Building on the developments laid out in his eight previous books (five of which are translated into English), this book focusses on physical illness as the natural end result of longterm unresolved emotional trauma.
The premise is that `physical illnesses', whether structural problems, chronic illnesses, undefinable malaise or nameable diseases, are likely to have as their foundations some form of very early psychological traumatisation.
The book is a collection of essays, starting with an overview by Professor Ruppert from the perspective of IoPT theory, followed by an essay by Dr Harald Banzhaf, Medical Head of the Healing Centre Zollernalb, Germany, who illustrates at length how current scientific and medical developments support Ruppert's theories and thinking.
The other 23 essays are written by practitioners who work with IoPT theory and method, bringing their own particular interest and expertise to understanding the origins of a variety of physical complaints in early emotional traumas.
My Body, My Trauma, My I provides a further link in our understanding of ourselves as human beings, who we are, and why we suffer from the ailments that we do..

Contents:

Trauma as the key to understanding physical suffering - Harald Banzhaf. My heart, my love, my trauma - Dagmar Strauss. Food, the digestive system and trauma - Evelyn Hahn. Severe constipation - Beate Herrmann. When traumas affect the kidneys - Ingrid Perg. My breathing, my lungs, my trauma - Patrizia Manukian. My eyes, my trauma, my I - Aurora Wolf. Chronic pain as a consequence of trauma - Annemarie Denk. Psychotrauma and skin diseases - Marta Thorsheim. My teeth, my trauma, my I - Thomas R. Roell. Back pain and its causes - Thilo Behla. My right hip and I: the story of my rebirth - Gerlinde Fischedick. Chronic shoulder pain - Martina Wittmann. "What has happened to my neck?" - Juliane von Krause. Trauma and posture - Catherine Xavier. Rheumatoid arthritis - Isabella Gerstgrasser. Lymphoma - `cancer' - Kate Collier. Sleep disorders and psychotrauma - Nadja Palombo. Childhood diseases, parents and trauma -. Bettina Schmalnauer. Who am I in my body and in my sexuality as a woman? - Ellen Kersten. Cervical cancer and becoming a mother - Diana Lucia Vasile. The male body, sex and trauma - Stephan Konrad Niederwieser. The menopause - opportunity for a change in perspective - Andrea Tietz. Sport, the body and trauma - Christina Freund.