Lifespan Integration: Connecting Ego States through Time
Author: Peggy Pace
First Edition: published August 2003 [out of print]
Second Edition: published June 2004
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The Lifespan Integration book describes in detail the method which Peggy Pace developed for working with adults who experienced abuse or neglect when they were children. This book includes Peggy's basic Step by Step Lifespan Integration protocol. After reading this book, the therapist will have the information he or she needs to begin using LI.
In this book Peggy Pace describes various ways in which her Lifespan Integration method can be used to integrate dissociated ego states and feeling states, and to treat a variety of disorders. These disorders include anxiety and panic disorder, self-harming behaviors such as cutting, eating disorders including anorexia, and dissociative identity disorder. Case examples are used to demonstrate how the Lifespan Integration protocol can be varied depending on the presenting problem, and depending on what comes up during the LI session.
The Lifespan Integration book also includes a summary of the most recent research in the area of neural development. In the neuroscience chapters Peggy Pace summarizes what is known about how separated selves and self states become integrated within the developing child. Pace proposes in her book that neural integration continues throughout the lifespan, and can be expedited during therapy when the conditions required for neural integration are re-created within the therapeutic setting. Pace cites recent discoveries in the field of neuroscience to support her hypothesis about how and why her Lifespan Integration technique is so effective in the psychological healing of adult survivors of childhood trauma.