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Trauma and the Body

By: Pat Ogden, Kekuni Minton, Clare Pain, Daniel J. Siegel MD - foreword, Bessel A. van der Kolk MD - foreword
Narrated by: Paul Brion
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Psychotherapists who have been trained in models of psychodynamic, psychoanalytic, or cognitive therapeutic approaches are skilled at listening to the language and affect of the client.

They track the clients' associations, fantasies, and signs of psychic conflict, distress, and defenses. Yet while the majority of therapists are trained to notice the appearance and even the movements of the client's body, thoughtful engagement with the client's embodied experience has remained peripheral to traditional therapeutic interventions.

The premise of Trauma and the Body is that, by adding body-oriented interventions to their repertoire, traditionally trained therapists can increase the depth and efficacy of their clinical work. Sensorimotor psychotherapy is an approach that builds on traditional psychotherapeutic understanding but includes the body as central in the therapeutic field of awareness, using observational skills, theories, and interventions not usually practiced in psychodynamic psychotherapy.

By synthesizing bottom-up and top-down interventions, the authors combine the best of both worlds to help chronically traumatized clients find resolution and meaning in their lives and develop a new, somatically integrated sense of self.

©2006 Pat Ogden and W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. (P)2020 Tantor
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Great Book

It is a long book that appears to require some extra knowledge on trauma, which helped me understand many concepts that may have been difficult if I went in without my prior knowledge but it was a good and insightful read. I highly recommend this book.

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