Early Trauma

Multigenerational psychotraumatology

His project to develop a multi-generational psychotraumatology began in 2002 and has resulted in seven books in German. His therapeutic method, the intention-based self-encounter process, is now an established independent trauma therapy method.

In this book, he shines a light on our earliest life experiences, highlighting the fact that when we are born, we have already lived for about nine months. That unborn children are sensing, feeling, and recognizing beings is not common knowledge; otherwise, we would likely treat this dawning life differently.

What the unborn and young child experiences shapes them throughout their entire life. Positive and loving experiences lay the foundation for a stable personality. However, stressful or traumatic experiences can lead to lifelong negative patterns.

Ruppert's main concept here is the trauma of love, which includes the earliest period of our lives. He emphasizes that psychotherapy must embrace both our own lived experience right from conception, along with the experiences of our parents and grandparents, including this earliest phase of life.

His co-authors generously share their own therapeutic experiences, showing how both implicit memories from pre-verbal times and inherited emotions can be brought to light and integrated through the therapeutic work with the intention-based self-encounter process.

Read an excerpt from Chapter 2: Conception as a starting point for early trauma (pdf)

Co-authors of this book are:

Marta Thorsheim, Dagmar Strauss, Alice Schiltze-Kraft, Cordula Shulte, Annemarie Denk, Petra Lardschneider, Gabriele Hoppe, Christina Freund, Doris Brombach, Andrea Stoffers, Brigit Assel, Vivian Brougthon, Margriet Wentink, and Manuela Specht.