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The body keeps the score brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma
An expert on traumatic stress outlines an approach to healing, explaining how traumatic stress affects brain processes and how to use innovative treatments to reactivate the mind's abilities to trust, engage others, and experience pleasure--
| Main Author: | Van der Kolk, Bessel A., 1943- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, New York :
Penguin Books,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue :
- Facing trauma
- Part I.
- The rediscovery of trauma.
- Lessons from Vietnam veterans ;
- Revolutions in understanding mind and brain ;
- Looking into the brain:
- the neuroscience revolution
- Part II.
- This is your brain on trauma
- Running for your life: the anatomy of survival
- Body-brain connections
- Losing your body, losing your self
- Part III.
- Minds of children.
- Getting on the same wavelength: attachment and attunement
- Trapped in relationships:
- the cost of abuse and neglect
- What's love got to do with it?
- Developmental trauma:
- the hidden epidemic
- Part Four:
- The imprint of trauma
- Uncovering secrets:
- the problem of traumatic memory:
- The unbearable heaviness of remembering
- Part V:
- Paths to recovery
- Healing from trauma: owning your self
- Language: miracle and tyranny
- Letting go of the past: EMDR
- Learning to inhabit your body: yoga
- Putting the pieces together: self-leadership
- Filling in the holes: creating structures
- Applied neuroscience: rewiring the fear-driven mind with brain/computer interface technology
- Finding your voice: communal rhythms and theater
- Epilogue :
- Choices to be made
- Appendix :
- Consensus proposed criteria for developmental trauma disorder.