The wounded childhood

<div><!--block-->1. We all carry the burden of childhood emotional wounds.<br>2. Some of these wounds are circumstantial and minor, whereas others are deep and&nbsp;chronic, such as those that respond to experience of childhood mistreatment: physical<br>violence, psycho logical violence, sexual abuse, parental negligence, abandonment.<br>3. These childhood emotional wounds, by being open and not sufficiently healed, tend to&nbsp;affect, obstacle or interrupt adult life.<br>4. Psychotherapy with adults can very well be understood, from its roots, as the joint process&nbsp;of healing the childhood emotional wounds.<br>5. Speaking of the wounded childhood is acknowledging childhood as the most important&nbsp;period in the emotional construction of an individual.<br>6. This does not imply ceasing to consider the emotional wounds whose origin comes from&nbsp;adolescence or adulthood.<br>7. Childhood emotional wounds tend to occur in the context of early relationships with&nbsp;parents or caregivers, as well as with siblings or other figures of the nuclear family. It is&nbsp;also necessary to add the school environment.<br>8. The wounded childhood refers especially to the complex relational trauma, i.e. the&nbsp;intolerable and chronic suffering or pain that happens every day during development and<br>frequently in the context of significant and close interpersonal relationships.<br>9. If the wounded childhood is a mistreated childhood, then its opposite is a well-treated&nbsp;childhood.<br>10. An upbringing based on good treatment and on an education for non-violence are&nbsp;fundamental pillars of mental health.</div>