The Past Reality Integration Trauma and Defense Model

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What is Past Reality Integration (PRI)?

PRI, created by Ingeborg Bosch, operates on the assumption that emotions and behavioral patterns impacting our daily lives are rooted in old traumas from our early years, often unbeknownst to us. Whether grappling with depression, burnout, anxiety, panic attacks, addiction, eating issues, or relationship challenges, PRI posits that the origin of these problems lies in past experiences, veiling the residual pain from that time.

In PRI therapy, your therapist guides you to apply PRI techniques independently based on your specific concerns, a process established during an intake interview. Through careful observation and utilization of the PRI model, which elucidates the workings of the brain, you gain deeper insights into your emotions and defenses. The therapeutic process involves consciously halting habitual behaviors to access latent, unconscious feelings linked to your past.

​The ultimate goal is not to perpetuate the experience of old pain but to progressively live without unnecessary challenges and defenses. PRI therapy enables you to swiftly recognize and dismantle activating behaviors, allowing you to experience the present unburdened and fostering authentic connections with yourself and your environment.

The Handout
The handout available for download at the top of this webpage lists off the defenses people commonly use to protect against perceptions of abandonment, rejection, and neglect. On the first page, you'll see each defense listed and the antidote to it right after. Below the defense-antidote you will see the "narrative" of the defense or the thoughts that go with it. On the second page, you will see the PRI model of a trigger. At the bottom of the second page you see on the left the trigger getting integrated and on the right the trigger getting suppressed and filed back into the unconscious.