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Index
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
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
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
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
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