Post-Induction Therapy (PIT) is a disease concept of developmental immaturity for codependence issues. The premise of PIT is that childhood trauma, including child abuse and neglect, is the origin of developmental immaturity. Pia Mellody’s pioneering was created to identify and treat the underlying trauma of most addictive and dysfunctional processes.

Learning and Therapy Objectives:

  • Discuss the important role that family-of-origin issues play in attachment
    and development.

  • Discuss the issue of codependency in terms of having an unhealthy relationship with self and others due to developmental arrest from childhood relational trauma resulting in developmental immaturity.

  • Understand the five core issues and the five secondary symptoms of developmental immaturity.

  • Describe and write about one’s issues of childhood relational trauma and abuse and struggle around the five core symptoms.

  • Come to understand the concepts of the Wounded Child, the Adapted Wounded Child, the Adapted Adult Wounded Child, and the Functional Adult.

  • Understand and work with Carried Emotions and negative introjects.

  • Process Child and Feeling Reduction experiential trauma.

  • Understand and process the concepts of Love Addiction and Love Avoidance.

  • And more!