Relational and Body-Centered Practices for Healing Trauma - Lifting the Burdens of the Past

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

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Sharon Stanley, Sharon (Private Practice Stanley, Stanley Sharon
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.03.2025
• EAN: 9781032717715
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3271771-5
• No. of pages: 322
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Trauma & shock, Psychotherapy, Social Work, Trauma and shock, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)