Trauma and the Body

A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy

By: Pat Ogden, Kekuni Minton, Clare Pain, Daniel J. Siegel (Foreword by), Bessel van der Kolk (Foreword by)

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Hardcover | 8 January 2010 | Edition Number 1

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The body, for a host of reasons, has been left out of the talking cure. 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.

Trauma and the Body is a detailed review of research in neuroscience, trauma, dissociation, and attachment theory that points to the need for an integrative mind body approach to trauma. The premise of this book 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.

Industry Reviews

"I strongly recommend this fascinating and essential reading...it offers clinicians of all orientations a variety of psychosomatic treatment strategies." -- Julia Mueller - Journal of Psychosomatic Research
"This book will be read and valued by researchers and clinicians alike, as well as academics and those who already practice body-oriented psychotherapies. This is a rare achievement. . . . [H]ighly recommended." -- PsycCritiques
"[A]n exemplary collaboration within the village of traumatology....[G]rounded in the whole body of knowledge available to us about trauma....They also offer explanations of new concepts in clear language and couple the technical information with familiar ideas....Although clinicians in particular, will benefit from reading this book, it also will interest clients, researchers, and other mental health professionals....I highly recommend studying this book at a leisurely pace that allows for an integration of all that it offers." -- Clinical Social Work Journal
"[A] significant addition to the literature on...mind-body medicine....[T]his sensible, respectful, non-anthologizing, step-by-step approach helps people create balance in their lives." -- Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy

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