![]() ![]() Easy access to the fight response insures good boundaries, healthy assertiveness and aggressive self-protectiveness if necessary. In the face of real danger, they have appropriate access to all of their 4F choices. Individuals who experience "good enough parenting" in childhood arrive in adulthood with a healthy and flexible response repertoire to danger. Many of my clients have reported that psychoeducation in this model has been motivational, deshaming and pragmatically helpful in guiding their recovery. Variances in the childhood abuse/neglect pattern, birth order, and genetic predispositions result in individuals "choosing" and specializing in narcissistic (fight), obsessive/compulsive (flight), dissociative (freeze) or codependent (fawn) defenses. This model elaborates four basic defensive structures that develop out of our instinctive Fight, Flight, Freeze and Fawn responses to severe abandonment and trauma (heretofore referred to as the 4Fs). This paper describes a trauma typology for differentially diagnosing and treating Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The 4Fs: A Trauma Typology in Complex PTSD ![]()
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