A case study exploring how PSIP helped a client’s decades-long eating disorder gradually release—not by targeting the behavior directly, but by building relational pathways that allowed the underlying trauma to surface and resolve.

Discusses how even insight, somatic tools, or spiritual narratives can be unconsciously repurposed as secondary defenses, and why noticing the function of a client’s strategy often matters more than the form it takes.

This article explores a clinical example from Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy (PSIP) illustrating how therapists balance presence and direct intervention when clients project traumatic roles during sessions.