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Excellent set of chapters on the various levels of trauma that together offer a way of integrating mind-body-subjective experience. Helps professionals understand the strata of trauma, giving them many ways to speak to and heal those suffering in ways that aren't always visible.People suffering from trauma will also be able to understand their plight and have more compassion for themselves. Most of all they will be able to notice and recognize their somatic and emotional signs of past trauma eff...
Heavy-duty neuropsych test about the integration of psychology, neurology, and our developing understanding of emotion as both structural and phenomenological. Really interesting ideas to apply to reading/motivation as well as attachment issues and the role of storytelling in integration emotional messages.
Really excellent anthology of writings on the application of cutting-edge research about the intersection of our emotional lives, self-regulation, affective neuroscience, psychodynamic psychotherapies, and attachment theory.
Great collection of essays on emotion, motivation, and the body in relationships, attachment, trauma, and healing from an impressive list of contributors.
Very dry, but citable. An excellent overview/introduction into the ideas of many prominent neuroscientists and attachment-based clinicians. I liked the Fosha, Ogden, Huges, Jackson, and Schore essays most.
The main title sounds like a self-help book, but the subtitle and contents reveal that it is not. The book is aimed mainly at therapists and students. The standard of the chapters is very high; though it is somewhat ironic that, true to the culture of scientific study, they have a left-brain slant and lack certain right-brain insights. Perhaps left-/right integration is difficult in scientific studies due to the entrenched left-brained culture? Nonetheless, it's still a great book on the neurosc...
It took me about 9 months to read it. I thought it will never end. The first half of the book was mostly like gibberish to me. It was so impossibly difficult to understand. Then the other half of the book went smoothly and I received a lot of useful information.
Further reading from The Body Keeps the Score