ABSTRACT
In author experience, the kind of brutalization which leads to terrorization comes from three sources. The first is a single overwhelming incident resulting in great shock and loss, such as an accident or natural disaster. The second is a continuing parent-child relationship or other relationship which is brutalizing to the child/adolescent and from which he or she cannot escape. The third is a general energy field or atmosphere in which the person grows up and which is offensive enough to that person’s sensitiveness and sensibilities to be brutalizing. The therapy of terror is a contact sport, but the contact must be caring, loving, as a friend. The terrorized patient must be kept in contact with his or her avoidance of excitement when in the phobic layer until implosion and trembling explosion occurs, not once but repeatedly, until the basic organismic resiliency is restored. The best therapy system to use very explicitly with a terrorized patient is none.
