ABSTRACT
This chapter weaves a red thread between early childhood trauma and psychosis, narrating the story of Martin-Txiki, a young offender who had his first psychotic outbreak in a centre for offenders. The work involved an intervention proposal through Dance Movement Therapy (DMT), creating a safe space and establishing a positive bonding relationship. Embodied perceptual practices, creativity, and bodily movement, were used to meet Martin-Txiki in his broken and fragmented existence. Initially, this relationship seemed like an illusion for him, somehow fitting into his fantasy of being 'The Chosen One'. The importance of limits became soon apparent, and props that allowed both to set boundaries as well as to connect were offered. The metaphorical objective was to 'knit a skin', to begin to find his own limits, even to separate himself from his magical world that seemed both fascinating and terrifying. Martin-Txiki's story points the finger at an unspoken injustice, connecting early sexual trauma and the violation of interpersonal boundaries with dissociative psychotic symptoms. It describes DMT as a possibility to anchor one's body in a safe space within a secure relationship as a basis for further healing.
