Imagination and Adolescent Trauma - The Role of Imagination in Neurophysiological, Psychological,

Exploring the role of imagination in trauma recovery, the author shares the arresting dreams and stories of traumatized adolescents engaging in interventions designed to restore neurophysiological balance and facilitate restorative dreaming. These interventions nurture meaningful self-narrative, spiritual development, and posttraumatic growth.

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 The Woman Who Thought She was a Corpse: Embodied Imagination

Chapter 2 The Boy who Couldn't Dream: the Neurophysiology of Adolescent Trauma

Chapter 3 The Woman Who Stopped Running: Embodied Imagination and Coherent Narrative

Chapter 4 Pursued by Zombies: Physiological Coherence and Adolescent Trauma

Chapter 5 Learning to Dream: Five Case Studies

Chapter 6 Sharks, Zombies, and Siblings: Dream Groups in Adolescent Recovery

Chapter 7 Beyond Survival: Posttraumatic Growth, Embodied Imagination, and Spirituality in Adolescent Trauma Recovery

Bibliography

About the Author

About the author

By Mary Caswell Walsh

Summary

Exploring the role of imagination in trauma recovery, the author shares the arresting dreams and stories of traumatized adolescents engaging in interventions designed to restore neurophysiological balance and facilitate restorative dreaming. These interventions nurture meaningful self-narrative, spiritual development, and posttraumatic growth.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Caswell Walsh
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781793618320
• ISBN: 978-1-79361-832-0
• No. of pages: 182
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Entwicklungspsychologie, RELIGION / Spirituality, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General, RELIGION / Counseling, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Adolescent, RELIGION / Psychology of Religion, Adolescence, Dream work, Healing, HRV Biofeedback, Imagination, Post-traumatic Growth, Spirituality, Trauma, Spirituality & religious experience, Abnormal psychology, Child & developmental psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Spirituality and religious experience, Age groups: adolescents, Religious counselling