Relational and Body-Centered Practices for Healing Trauma: Lifting the Burdens of the Past [Paperback]

Relational and Body-Centered Practices for Healing Trauma?provides psychotherapists and other helping professionals with a groundbreaking, body-based model for treating trauma.

Sharon Stanley, PhD, is a dynamic educator and psychotherapist who has taught creative practices for healing trauma to therapists and Indigenous people throughout the world.

Introduction to the Second Edition 1. Trauma and Embodied Relational Therapy  2. Structures and Functions of the Body-Mind-Brain, Homeostasis, and the Polyvagal Theory of Autonomic Functioning  3. Good News! The Brain Can Change!  4. Embodiment: Coming Home to Our Bodies  5. With Trauma, the Spirit Leaves the Body   6. Somatic Awareness: The Truth of the Mind Begins in the Body  7. Somatic Empathy: Encounters of the Living Body with Another Living Body   8. Somatic Inquiry: Exploring the Intersubjective World  9. Somatic Interventions for Regulating Neural-Emotional States  10. Somatic Interventions with Imagination and Dreams  11. Somatic Reflection  12. The Old/New Paradigm for Healing Trauma  Appendix: The Practice of Somatic Transformation  Index

Relational and Body-Centered Practices for Healing Trauma is a remarkably compelling blend of interdisciplinary theory and applied case material. The science is accurate, and the clinical material is absorbing. Sharon Stanleys integration of anthropological and cultural material with relational body techniques is unique. This book will have an indelible impact on the field.

Allan Schore, PhD, author of Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self and The Science of the Art of Psychotherapy

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