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Psychotherapists who have been trained in models of psychodynamic,
psychoanalytic, or cognitive therapeutic approaches are skilled at
listening to the language and affect of the client. They track the
clients' associations, fantasies, and signs of psychic conflict,
distress, and defenses. Yet while the majority of therapists are
trained to notice the appearance and even the movements of the
client's body, thoughtful engagement with the client's embodied
experience has remained peripheral to traditional therapeutic
interventions. Trauma and the Body is a detailed review of research
in neuroscience, trauma, dissociation, and attachment theory that
points to the need for an integrative mind-body approach to trauma.
The premise of this book is that, by adding body-oriented
interventions to their repertoire, traditionally trained therapists
can increase the depth and efficacy of their clinical work.
Sensorimotor psychotherapy is an approach that builds on
traditional psychotherapeutic understanding but includes the body
as central in the therapeutic field of awareness, using
observational skills, theories, and interventions not usually
practiced in psychodynamic psychotherapy. By synthesizing bottom-up
and top down interventions, the authors combine the best of both
worlds to help chronically traumatized clients find resolution and
meaning in their lives and develop a new, somatically integrated
sense of self. Topics addressed include: Cognitive, emotional, and
sensorimotor dimensions of information processing * modulating
arousal * dyadic regulation and the body * the orienting response *
defensive subsystems * adaptation and action systems * treatment
principles * skills for working with the body in present time *
developing somatic resources for stabilization * processing
An essential tool for on-the-ground clinicians, this guidebook
provides an easy-to-use, evidence-based summary of psychotherapy
skills that enhance the therapeutic alliance and improve outcomes
in difficult treatment situations. Addressing commonly-encountered
clinical challenges, this concise guide one of six in the
Psychotherapy Essentials To Go series lays out the basics of
building effectiveness in psychotherapy. Self-questionnaires, case
studies, role play transcripts, diagrams, exercises, and worksheets
make it easy for front-line case workers and therapists of all
kinds to learn the fundamentals of effective treatment and put them
to use immediately."
There is now ample evidence from the preclinical and clinical
fields that early life trauma has both dramatic and long-lasting
effects on neurobiological systems and functions that are involved
in different forms of psychopathology as well as on health in
general. To date, a comprehensive review of the recent research on
the effects of early and later life trauma is lacking. This book
fills an obvious gap in academic and clinical literature by
providing reviews which summarize and synthesize these findings.
Topics considered and discussed include the possible biological and
neuropsychological effects of trauma at different epochs and their
effect on health. This book will be essential reading for
psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, mental health professionals,
social workers, pediatricians and specialists in child development.
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