In overwhelming trauma, when words fail, it is the body that begins to speak. How can clinicians listen to the body and understand its messages? This book is both a detailed review of the body symptoms and body image distortions found after trauma and a textbook of psychotherapy techniques to repair broken metaphors about the body so that the body-self and its functioning can be restored. Multiple theoretical perspectives--Freudian psychoanalytic theory, attachment theory, trauma theory--are synthesized to shape an interlocking framework within which the therapist can listen and stay with the...
In overwhelming trauma, when words fail, it is the body that begins to speak. How can clinicians listen to the body and understand its messages? This ...
A fascinating, challenging read. A tour de force of interior imaginative writing revealing the amazing journey of a young woman's return to herself and a transformed world.
A fascinating, challenging read. A tour de force of interior imaginative writing revealing the amazing journey of a young woman's return to herself an...
