10/07/2019
Jay Noricks PhD
Protocol for P&MT Healing of Child Through Parent Surrogate
1. Collect history of the problem from parent as child listens (encourage child to add or correct parent’s description). Note problem memories (hotspots) in narrative.
2. Guide parent in role-play of child, addressing parent by name of child as therapist frequently addresses parent by child’s name.
3. Child’s role is to simply listen.
4. Repeat back to parent-as-child the history previously collected but stop at each emotional hotspot to carry out a neutralizing intervention of each problem memory, e.g., guide parent-as-child in visualizing a wind blowing over and through herself as it blows away the fear as particles of dust.
5. Parent accepts and affirms her (as child) internal changes as therapist’s narrative and neutralizing interventions continue.
6. Neutralize each hotspot in chronological order, earliest to most recent problem-memory incident.
7. Example of work with a 5-year-old, too shy to speak directly with therapist.
1 Problem: Child vomits before kindergarten and experiences stomach pain each morning—at school for first two weeks but then only at home before school.
2 Problem first arose when mother returned to work and daughter was age 1.5.
3 Vomiting and pain continued over next 4 years with changes in her school and as attachment figures (e.g., teachers, parents, nannies) changed, age 1.5, 3.5 (nanny leaves), 4, 4.5, 5 and 5.5 (kindergarten).
4 Immediate relief of vomiting and stomach pain problem following this protocol, and continuing through next two years to present.
