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NARM Model for Working with Affect
§While there are many strategies children use to help them adapt, there are two main emotions that feel too threatening for the child to experience:
§ANGER §SADNESS
§These two emotions are so threatening that children disavowed them from conscious awareness
§In other words, they are split-off, repressed, denied, dissociated, displaced, somaticized, and ultimately acted-in and acted-out
§FEAR, or more accurately ANXIETY, is the communication that a basic need has not been met or has been foreclosed, and is a signal to us about something that’s unresolved
NARM Model for Working with Affect Laurence Heller, PhD & Brad J Kammer, LMFT, LPCC 9
