BookBessel A. van der Kolk, M.D.
Summary: 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. --Publisher's description.
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. The 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 IV. 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 brain 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.
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