Ayesha Singh writes for The New Indian Express:
How does that make you feel?’ is typically how a session of psychotherapy begins. While ‘feeling the feelings’ is the cornerstone of emotional healing, the body may need a different assessment to recoup. Brainspotting, a neurobiological tool that uses spots in a person’s visual field to help them identify and release trauma, is now drawing the attention of mental health practitioners worldwide to treat several conditions.
When 21-year-old calligrapher Rahul Sinha sought therapy to work through post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a result of sibling abuse by his elder brother, who teased, bullied and belittled him while growing up, the ‘trauma shock’ or a state of inner freeze he experienced was enormous. Delhi-based Sinha tried various modalities to address this emotional stressor, but [B]rainspotting was a breakthrough.
As a first step, the therapist asked him to talk about his abuse in detail…