Searching for reasons in childhood

Usually love addiction is the attempt to receive love that wasn't got in childhood. This is the child's trauma of the psychological character got in the result of early childhood conflicts connected with the relations of mother and a child (the lack of care, deficit of communication, no desire to respect, indifference, carelessness, etc).

The reasons may also become the sexual harassment of adults and violent attitude to children. All these factors lead to the unconscious introduction of similar elements of traumas into the love affairs. The former offences, disappointments and sufferings start to show themselves in the present love. A person tries to regain the lost love in childhood.

If the reasons of love addiction are really hidden in childhood, psychologists treat it with considering all reasons and detailed story of a person about his/her childhood.

The usual exercise in such case is the return to childhood. It may be held with the help of hypnosis when doctor-hypnotists makes a patient fall into a trance to find out his/her problems and preoccupations in childhood and to reconstruct all events that led to love addiction or another kind of addiction.

Another exercise is based on patient's imagination when a person must turn to his/her imagination to reconstruct childhood. He/she must try to comfort himself/herself in childhood showing the support to himself/herself. In such way a person finds support and love in himself/herself forgetting about the object of love addiction.