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

Table of Contents:

pt. ONE THE REDISCOVERY OF TRAUMA
1.Lessons From Vietnam Veterans
2.Revolutions In Understanding Mind And Brain
3.Looking Into The Brain: The Neuroscience Revolution

pt. TWO THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON TRAUMA
4.Running For Your Life: The Anatomy Of Survival
5.Body-Brain Connections
6.Losing Your Body, Losing Your Self

pt. THREE THE MINDS OF CHILDREN
7.Getting On The Same Wavelength: Attachment And Attunement
8.Trapped In Relationships: The Cost Of Abuse And Neglect
9.What's Love Got To Do With It?
10.Developmental Trauma: The Hidden Epidemic

pt. FOUR THE IMPRINT OF TRAUMA
11.Uncovering Secrets: The Problem Of Traumatic Memory
12.The Unbearable Heaviness Of Remembering

pt. FIVE PATHS TO RECOVERY
13.Healing From Trauma: Owning Your Self
14.Language: Miracle And Tyranny
15.Letting Go Of The Past: EMDR
16.Learning To Inhabit Your Body: Yoga
17.Putting The Pieces Together: Self-Leadership
Contents note continued: 18.Filling In The Holes: Creating Structures
19.Rewiring The Brain: Neurofeedback
20.Finding Your Voice: Communal Rhythms And Theater.

The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world's experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving away from standard talking and drug therapies and towards an alternative approach that heals mind, brain and body.

'Van der Kolk draws on thirty years of experience to argue powerfully that trauma is one of the West's most urgent public health issues ... Packed with science and human stories' New Scientist

'Breathtaking in its scope and breadth, a seminal work by one of the preeminent pioneers in trauma research and treatment' Peter A. Levine, author of In An Unspoken Voice

'Dr. van der Kolk's masterpiece combines the boundless curiosity of the scientist, the erudition of the scholar, and the passion of the truth teller' Judith Herman, author of Trauma and Recovery.

(https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/259420/the-body-keeps-the-score/)