Inner Architecture and Narrative Re-authorship: A Contemporary Psychotherapeutic Approach for High-Acuity Clients
Clients in high-acuity psychological states, marked by developmental neglect, trauma, or existential dislocation, often retreat into internally constructed psychic worlds. This paper explores the phenomenon of “Inner Architecture” as a self-protective and narrative-engineering strategy, drawing from autoethnographic accounts and composite client narratives. It proposes a model of sovereign inner governance, detailing how rites, roles, and symbolic maps are constructed by those for whom the external world offered no safe harbour.
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