In this Social Panorama case study by Claudie van Ginneken is shown how Social Panorama can be embedded in psychological treatment. The Social Panorama method is amongst other methods used to help a client with a severe obsession. It helps the client to take back control over thoughts and feelings again.
Social Panorama case study by Claudie van Ginneken from the Netherlands
Both the talk and presentation about this Social Panorama case study were entitled “Boxes for Exes”
This described a very interesting case. A person who had ended a relationship and has moved on several times could not seem to stop obsessing over this particular person. As we know obsession is often an extreme response and rarely healthy, so this person wanted to get some closure.
Claudie had several sessions, which included Hypnotherapy and the Uni-Lateral Improvement of Relationships. From how she described the client, there appeared to be a lot of what we call “The Great Big What-if Pattern” in IEMT. It is one of the 5 Primary Patterns of Chronicity that people can run especially those with anxiety-based issues.
The Social Panorama session
During one of the sessions Claudie decided to elicit a Social Panorama for the client with past and present relationships. Some of the positioning was very interesting. For example, the last ‘”Ex” was positioned to the left within the intimate circle and was not a problem. Two other exes were positioned further away to the right and were not a problem either. They met the requirements for reference personifications. However, the “problem-Ex” was at the right side in front of the client, not even as close as several other exes, but appeared to be looking down on the client. Surprisingly, when Claudie asked the client to move this personification further away to the right towards the referent personifications the feeling became worse 10/10!
The client was then asked to move this personification to the left over a meter away and this felt better. The feeling improved while replacing the personification further away and to the left. But, when asked to place it behind the Self it became worse again.
Boxes for Exes
So, it was decided that a box could be created to the left of the Self. This area could be symmetrical with respect to the two referent personifications (the problem-free exes).
Claudie recommends the old gap in Social Panorama to be filled with light (after all, nature abhors a vacuum). The phrase expresses the idea that unfilled spaces go against the laws of nature and physics. Every space needs to be filled with something, as first observed by Aristotle some 2,350 years ago.
This was a good solution for this client. Claudie did some further work in future sessions, using Hypnotherapy and the Uni-Lateral Improvement of Relationships.
- The presentation of this case study on Social Panorama was performed during the International Ambassadors Day June 2024 by Claudie van Ginneken.
- The abstract was written by Sonia Richards of the Society of Mental Space Psychology.