Trauma Therapy and Clinical Practice: Neuroscience, Gestalt and the - Bod

This book weaves together the experience of trauma, neuroscience and Gestalt theory and applies these to clients.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1: Enlarging the Field of Choice
Making Change Possible
The Organization of Parts and Wholes
Working with Arousal
There and then, here and now
Part 2: At the Limits of Self
From Fear to Safety
From Helplessness to Autonomy
From Disconnection to Contact
From Shame to Acceptance
Part 3: A Relational Home for Trauma
The Role of the Therapist
The Well-Resourced Therapist
Embodied Relationship
Transforming Relational Wounds
Glossary
References
Index

About the author

Miriam Taylor is a Gestalt psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer. With a background in adult education she later worked clinically for some years with young people. From this she developed her focus on trauma. She works in private practice and at a trauma service. She teaches at Metanoia Institute, UK, and elsewhere.

Product details

• Authors: Miriam Taylor, Miriam S. Taylor
• Publisher: Open University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.03.2014
• EAN: 9780335263097
• ISBN: 978-0-335-26309-7
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Open University Press; UK Higher Education OUP Humanities & Social Sciences Counselling and Psychotherapy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology