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Index
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Foreword, by Bessel A. van der Kolk
Introduction: Why Is There a Polyvagal Theory?
PART I: THEORETICAL PRINCIPLES
1. Neuroception: A Subconscious System for Detecting Threat and Safety
2. Orienting in a Defensive World: Mammalian Modifications of Our Evolutionary Heritage. A Polyvagal Theory
3. The Polyvagal Theory: New Insights Into Adaptive Reactions of the Autonomic Nervous System
PART II: BIOBEHAVIORAL REGULATION DURING EARLY DEVELOPMENT
4. Vagal Tone: A Physiological Marker of Stress Vulnerability
5. The Infant’s Sixth Sense: Awareness and Regulation of Bodily Processes
6. Physiological Regulation in High-Risk Infants: A Model for Assessment and Potential Intervention
7. Infant Regulation of the Vagal “Brake” Predicts Child Behavior Problems: A Psychobiological Model of Social Behavior
8. The Early Development of the Autonomic Nervous System Provides a Neural Platform for Social Behavior
PART III: SOCIAL COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS
9. Vagal Tone and the Physiological Regulation of Emotion
10. Emotion: An Evolutionary By-Product of the Neural Regulation of the Autonomic Nervous System
11. Love: An Emergent Property of the Mammalian Autonomic Nervous System
12. Social Engagement and Attachment: A Phylogenetic Perspective
13. The Polyvagal Hypothesis: Common Mechanisms Mediating Autonomic Regulation, Vocalizations, and Listening
PART IV: THERAPEUTIC AND CLINICAL PERSPECTIVES
14. The Vagus: A Mediator of Behavioral and Physiological Features Associated With Autism
15. Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Regulation
16. Abuse History Is Related to Autonomic Regulation
17. Music Therapy, Trauma, and the Polyvagal Theory
PART V: SOCIAL BEHAVIOR AND HEALTH
18. Reciprocal Influences Between Body and Brain in the Perception and Expression of Affect
19. Neurobiology and Evolution: Mechanisms, Mediators, and Adaptive Consequences of Caregiving
Epilogue
Credits
References
Acknowledgments
Copyright
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