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The body keeps the score : brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma

Van der Kolk, Bessel A., 1943- (author.).

Summary:

An expert on traumatic stress outlines an approach to healing, explaining how traumatic stress affects brain processes and how to use innovative treatments to reactivate the mind's abilities to trust, engage others, and experience pleasure-- Publisher's description.

Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world's foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers' capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. He explores innovative treatments--from neurofeedback and meditation to sports, drama, and yoga--that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain's natural neuroplasticity. Based on Dr. van der Kolk's own research and that of other leading specialists, The Body Keeps the Score exposes the tremendous power of our relationships both to hurt and to heal--and offers new hope for reclaiming lives. -- From back cover.

Record details

ISBN: 9780143127741
ISBN: 0143127748
ISBN: 9780670785933
ISBN: 0670785938
Physical Description: xvi, 445 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Publisher: New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2015.
Copyright: ©2014

Content descriptions

General Note:	Originally published by Viking Penguin, 2014.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Prologue : Facing trauma -- Part I. The rediscovery of trauma. Lessons from Vietnam veterans ; Revolutions in understanding mind and brain ; Looking into the brain: the neuroscience revolution -- Part II. This is your brain on trauma -- Running for your life: the anatomy of survival -- Body-brain connections -- Losing your body, losing your self -- Part III. Minds of children. -- Getting on the same wavelength: attachment and attunement -- Trapped in relationships: the cost of abuse and neglect -- What's love got to do with it? -- Developmental trauma: the hidden epidemic -- Part Four: The imprint of trauma -- Uncovering secrets: the problem of traumatic memory: The unbearable heaviness of remembering -- Part V: Paths to recovery -- Healing from trauma: owning your self -- Language: miracle and tyranny -- Letting go of the past: EMDR -- Learning to inhabit your body: yoga -- Putting the pieces together: self-leadership -- Filling in the holes: creating structures -- Applied neuroscience: rewiring the fear-driven mind with brain/computer interface technology -- Finding your voice: communal rhythms and theater -- Epilogue : Choices to be made -- Appendix : Consensus proposed criteria for developmental trauma disorder.