The Body Remembers Volume 2: Revolutionizing Trauma Treatment
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| Rating | : | 4.97 (861 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393707296 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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She is also the creator and Series Editor of the 8 Keys to Mental Health Series. She is a bestselling author of six books, all published by WW Norton and translated into more than a dozen languages. After living and working for 9 years in Copenhagen, Denmark she returned to her native Los Angeles where she is writing her next books while she continues to lecture, train, consult, and supervise professional psychotherapists of all sorts worldwide. . About the Author Babette Rothschild, MSW, has been a practitioner since 1976 and a teacher and trainer since 1992
She is also the creator and Series Editor of the 8 Keys to Mental Health Series. She is a bestselling author of six books, all published by WW Norton and translated into more than a dozen languages. Babette Rothschild, MSW, has been a practitioner since 1976 and a teacher and trainer since 1992. After living and working for 9 years in Copenhagen, Denmark she return
This book is absolutely essential reading for anyone working with those who have experienced trauma. Being able to monitor and modulate a trauma client’s dysregulated nervous system is one of the practitioner’s best lines of defense against traumatic hyperarousal going amokrisking such consequences as dissociation and decompensation. For clients who prefer not to review memories, or are unable to do so safely, new and expanded strategies and principles for trauma recovery are presented. And for those who wish to avail themselves of more typical trauma memory work, tools to make trauma memory resolution even safer are included. Tri-fold color insert. Therefore, the first prerequisite is that the client be reliably stable and feel safe in his or her daily life as well as the therapy situation. To accomplish this, Babette Rothschild empowers both therapists and clients by expanding trauma treatment options. Rothschild clarifies and simplifies autonomic nervous system (ANS) understanding and observation with her creation of an original full color table that distinguishes six levels of arousal. Included in this table (and the discussion that accompanies it) is a new and essential distinction between trauma-induced hypoarousal and
Peter King said Excellent read and highly recommend this book!. Great read! Well done Babette for challenging the MYTH that practitioners only provide 'real' trauma therapy when "trauma resolution" is achieved. I also found the discussion about the evidence base as well as Babette's expansion on safety and stabilisation to be particularly refreshing. For me the highlights included the expanded ANS chart in the middle of the book, moving HYPO FREEZE AND HYPOAROUSAL to the top of the "Window of Affect Tolerance & Integration" and, like the original volume of The Body Remembers, the case example