| Description |
1 online resource (182 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- On Building Bridges -- Working with the Body Does Not Require Touch -- The False Memory Controversy -- Organization of This Book -- A Disclaimer -- Part I: Theory -- 1. Overview of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): The Impact of Trauma on Body and Mind -- Charlie and the Dog, Part I -- The Symptomatology of PTSD -- Distinguishing Stress, Traumatic Stress, PTS, and PTSD -- Survival and the Nervous System -- Defensive Response to Remembered Threat -- Dissociation, Freezing, and PTSD |
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Consequences of Trauma and PTSD -- 2. Development, Memory, and the Brain -- The Developing Brain -- What is Memory? -- 3. The Body Remembers: Understanding Somatic Memory -- The Sensory Roots of Memory -- Charlie and the Dog, Part II -- The Autonomic Nervous System: Hyperarousal and the Reflexes of Fight, Flight, and Freeze -- The Somatic Nervous System: Muscles, Movement, and Kinesthetic Memory -- Emotions and the Body -- 4. Expressions of Trauma Not Yet Remembered: Dissociation and Flashbacks -- Dissociation and the Body -- Flashbacks -- Part II: Practice -- 5. First, Do No Harm |
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On Braking and Accelerating -- Evaluation and Assessment -- The Role of the Therapeutic Relationship in Trauma Therapy -- Safety -- Developing and Reacquainting Resources -- Oases, Anchors, and the Safe Place -- The Importance of Theory -- Respecting Individual Differences -- Ten Foundations for Safe Trauma Therapy -- 6. The Body as Resource -- Body Awareness -- Making Friends with Sensations -- The Body as Anchor -- The Body as Gauge -- The Body as Brake -- The Body as Diary: Making Sense of Sensations -- Somatic Memory as Resource -- Facilitating Trauma Therapy Using the Body as Resource |
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7. Additional Somatic Techniques for Safer Trauma Therapy -- Dual Awareness -- Muscle Toning: Tension vs. Relaxation -- Physical Boundaries -- The Question of Client-Therapist Touch -- Mitigating Session Closure -- 8. Somatic Memory Becomes Personal History -- Beware the Wrong Road -- Separating Past from Present -- Working with the Aftermath of the Trauma First -- Bridging the Implicit and the Explicit -- Charlie and the Dog, the Final Episode -- References -- Index -- Copyright |
| Summary |
For both clinicians and their clients there is tremendous value inunderstanding the psychophysiology of trauma and knowing what to doabout its manifestations |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780393068689 |
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0393068684 |
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