ABSTRACT
This chapter briefly describes vignettes of my work with people who experienced some type of trauma that was unexplored. By incorporating concepts inherent in attachment and mentalization, patients were able to come to know and appreciate the value in trusting another people, which ultimately helped them learn to know their own minds.
In much the same way as some other psychologists have explained their work with traumatized patients, I describe my way of working with people as “Treatment Out of the Analytic Box.” By learning to trust another person without being judged, often for the first time, the patients in the stories described were able to experience a new way of being in the world because of what they learned from another person who valued and respected their uniqueness. Eventually each person described was able to come to know and appreciate his or her own mind. They were able to experience themselves as separate and unique without having to rigidly follow the dictates of another.
