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The body bears the burden : trauma, dissociation, and disease / Robert C. Scaer.
Holman Biotech Commons RC552.P67 S2236 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scaer, Robert C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Post-traumatic stress disorder--Treatment.
- Post-traumatic stress disorder.
- Bioenergetic psychotherapy.
- Mind and body therapies.
- Somatoform disorders--Treatment.
- Somatoform disorders.
- Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic--physiopathology.
- Dissociative Disorders--physiopathology.
- Psychophysiologic Disorders--physiopathology.
- Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic--psychology.
- Wounds and Injuries--psychology.
- Medical Subjects:
- Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic--physiopathology.
- Dissociative Disorders--physiopathology.
- Psychophysiologic Disorders--physiopathology.
- Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic--psychology.
- Wounds and Injuries--psychology.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 275 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Haworth Medical Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- Using the clinical model of the whiplash syndrome, this groundbreaking book describes the alterations in brain chemistry and function induced in individuals by traumatic stress or traumatization-experiencing a life-threatening event while in a state of helplessness. The Body Bears the Burden: Trauma, Dissociation, and Disease, Second Edition is impressive empirical evidence that body, brain, and mind are a continuum and presents a powerful new paradigm to medical and mental health professionals, as well as new hope to sufferers from trauma.
- Contents:
- Concepts of traumatization: the role of boundaries
- Trauma, instinct, and the brain: the fight/flight/freeze response
- The whiplash syndrome I: symptoms in search of a meaning
- The whiplash syndrome II: a model of the brain in trauma
- Trauma and brain plasticity
- Somatic dissociation
- Diseases of traumatic stress
- Trauma reenactment
- Sources of trauma
- Trauma therapy: essential ingredients
- Case histories: the somatic spectrum of trauma.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-259) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0789033348
- 9780789033345
- 0789033356
- 9780789033352
- OCLC:
- 152581021
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