Here is the Foreword by Professor Franz Ruppert:

Vivian Broughton’s book Trauma and Identity first published in 2021 is now appearing in a German translation. The publication of this translation sets a new milestone in the dissemination of knowledge about IOPT. Vivian Broughton presents the complete and detailed theoretical basis of IOPT in over 300 pages, providing an overview of the psychological subjects which are central to IOPT for all readers. The chapter where Vivian Broughton defines the essential human emotions and shows how they differ from each other is valuable. Especially important is that she shows how the emotions expressed by the traumatized and the survival parts during a self- encounter differ from each other.

This book also describes the practice of IOPT with the utmost accuracy. Practitioners of IOPT will find instructions on how clients can be supported in their self-encounters, both in groups and in individual settings. She discusses the essential problems which can occur in therapeutic contexts, counseling and supervision. Vivian is able to draw on her long experience as an IOPT therapist. How IOPT practitioners can reflect critically on themselves and their way of working is her central focus. That makes this book an indispensable component for every IOPT education.

Munich in May 2024 Prof. Dr. Franz Ruppert 

This book is primarily about love; love as the basic force of life; love that is lost or never born in the relationship between mother and infant; love that is the underlying need of the child; love that is delusionary, holding us in endless hope; and love that is honest and true, based on reality, and then possible in our relationship with ourselves, and those we truly love. Love is the turning point from trauma to health. 

This is a varied collection of thoughts and ideas, some full-length essays, and some short statements, all of which have IoPT (Identity-oriented Psychotrauma Therapy*) thinking underlying them. 

Becoming ‘IoPT-Informed’ does indeed take us on a journey where everything in the world can be considered through the lens of IoPT thinking. IoPT then becomes not just a theory and a therapeutic method, but a psychology and a philosophy that can inform and explain what happens in our own personal world, and in the wider political and social world. All of the major topics we are collectively struggling with every single day, and those personal musings about our own life... all can be considered from an IoPT perspective. 

This is a book above all to be enjoyed, and from which perhaps to learn something more about who we really are, individually and collectively.

LOVE, LUST & TRAUMA

Towards a Healthy Sexual Identity

Professor Dr Franz Ruppert

What is human sexuality?  As the source of life why is it also often the cause of so much suffering? 

The renowned psychotherapist Professor Dr Franz Ruppert shows in this book how sexual traumas come about, from the perspective of the victim and the perpetrator, with profound consequences for individuals, families and entire societies. 

With his development of Identity-Oriented Psychotrauma Therapy (IOPT) it becomes possible to raise awareness of sexual psychotrauma using The Intention Method, and to resolve it psychologically and emotionally. Sexuality can then again be experienced as a creative force that gives pleasure and helps to achieve a healthy identity.