Lifespan Integration

This book overviews a revolutionary new method of psychotherapy, Lifespan Integration, which Peggy Pace developed beginning in 2002. Lifespan Integration (LI) is an efficient body-based psychotherapeutic method which helps clients recover from traumatic events including childhood neglect and abuse. Lifespan Integration therapy differs from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in that LI bypasses the cognitive mind, and allows 'learning' to take place at the body level. 'Watching' repetitions of the life narrative permits the client's neural system to weave new 'information' about the passage of time into existing neural networks throughout the body-mind. This re-structuring and re-patterning within existing neural networks retains the memories of past events while incorporating the 'understanding' that time has passed. In this book Pace describes the Lifespan Integration method, and cites recent discoveries in the field of neuroscience to support her hypothesis about how and why the Lifespan Integration technique is so effective. This book is not intended to be instructional. Therapists should not attempt to use the Lifespan Integration method until they have completed a Lifespan Integration training program.

Peggy Pace graduated from the University of Washington in 1969 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry. She eventually returned to school and in 1985 she received a Master of Art's degree in Counseling Psychology from Antioch University. Pace spent much of her career between 1985 and 2003 counseling adults who suffered from symptoms of childhood trauma. She developed the Lifespan integration technique after realizing that many of her patients' present-day problems were due to body memories of unintegrated and unresolved past traumas. Lifespan Integration (LI) is a therapeutic process which enables trauma survivors to integrate body memory of past experiences into their present-day selves, resulting in more coherence in their self-systems and more fluid life narratives. Pace published the first edition of her book, Lifespan Integration: Connecting Ego States through Time, in 2003. After her book was published Pace received many requests from psychotherapists who wished to learn this revolutionary new method for healing psychological trauma. In response to these invitations, Pace traveled and taught her method to therapists in many parts of the US, Canada, France, Spain, Sweden, England, Ireland, and Russia. Today Lifespan Integration training courses are being offered in many countries.

This book describes the method which Peggy Pace developed for healing adults and adolescents who experienced trauma or neglect in childhood. Lifespan Integration therapy differs from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in that LI heals and integrates the body-minds of clients in multifaceted ways. LI therapy clears trauma memory and the defenses against early trauma throughout the body-mind. This is true even for cases when the trauma was pre-verbal and is not explicitly remembered. LI therapy can also be used to increase positive self-regard, to improve affect regulation, and to strengthen the core self. In her book, Pace describes how her Lifespan Integration method can be used to treat Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, anxiety and panic disorders, mood disorders, and eating disorders. In the chapter which discusses using LI to heal Dissociative Identity Disorder, Pace describes how Lifespan Integration therapy brings more coherence to the fragmented self systems of dissociated clients, eventually resulting in a unified self. The Lifespan Integration book includes a summary of recent discoveries in the field of neuroscience. Pace overviews 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.

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