Relational Intelligence

Psychology

François Le Doze

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Healing Our Brains Through Conscious Therapeutic Engagement

What if healing didn’t come from fixing what’s “wrong,” but from a relationship capable of reconnecting with what has become frozen in order to survive?

In Relational Intelligence®, François Le Doze proposes a new model of psychotherapy dedicated to healing deep psychological wounds and dissociation. Drawing on the neuroscience of trauma and attachment theory, it offers a shift in perspective: trauma cannot be reduced to a mere psychological dysfunction, but rather corresponds to a protective and enduring organization of the nervous system, shaped by chronic unsafety.

At the heart of the model is the Conscious Therapeutic Engagement, which enables the practitioner to finely tune their presence to meet the patient at the level of their experience of feeling unsafe. By integrating the bodily and cognitive dimensions, the author transforms chronic unsafety into a lasting sense of safety: a practice in which the quality of the relationship becomes the primary driver of regulation and healing.

“We don’t heal simply by understanding what has happened to us.” Cyril Tarquinio, foreword

Foreword by Cyril Tarquinio, Professor of Health Psychology, University of Lorraine.

François Le Doze

François Le Doze is a French neurologist and psychotherapist. After thirty years as a neurologist at Caen University Hospital, he has devoted himself to exploring the connections between the body, the brain and the psyche. He was the first French-speaking trainer of the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model and is a pioneer of Polyvagal Theory in France. In 2014 he founded Self Thérapie Formation, where he trains therapists, and since 2017 he has been developing the Relational Intelligence® model, an integrative approach to complex trauma that brings together the neurobiology of trauma, attachment and Polyvagal Theory. He is also the co-author, with C. Krumb, of La Force de la confiance, a presentation of the IFS model. https://selftherapie.com

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