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While there are many different approaches to healing trauma, few offer a wide range of perspectives and options. With innovative insight into trauma-related difficulties, Jasmin Lee Cori helps you: Understand trauma and its devastating impacts Identify symptoms of trauma (dissociation, numbing, etc.) and common mental health problems that stem from trauma Manage traumatic reactions and memories Create a more balanced life that supports your recovery Choose appropriate interventions (therapies, self-help groups, medications and alternatives) Recognize how far you’ve come in your healing and what you need to keep growing Complete with exercises, healing stories, points to remember, and resources, this is a perfect companion for anyone seeking to reclaim their life from the devastating impacts of trauma.

In spite of their physical invisibility, emotional wounds are a very damaging form of abuse. Whether caused by words, actions, or even indifference, emotional abuse is common–yet often overlooked. In this helpful guide, Dr. Gregory L. Jantz reveals how those who have been abused by a spouse, parent, employer, or minister can overcome the past and rebuild their self-image

Although it may seem that people suffer from an endless number of emotional problems and challenges, Laurence Heller and Aline LaPierre maintain that most of these can be traced to five biologically based organizing principles: the need for connection, attunement, trust, autonomy, and love-sexuality. They describe how early trauma impairs the capacity for connection to self and others and how the ensuing diminished aliveness is the hidden dimension that underlies most psychological and many physiological problems. Heller and LaPierre introduce the NeuroAffective Relational Model® (NARM), a method that integrates bottom-up and top-down approaches to regulate the nervous system and resolve distortions of identity such as low self-esteem, shame, and chronic self-judgment that are the outcome of developmental and relational trauma. While not ignoring a person’s past, NARM emphasizes working in the present moment to focus on clients’ strengths, resources, and resiliency in order to integrate the experience of connection that sustains our physiology, psychology, and capacity for relationship.

Widely regarded as the definitive reference, this handbook brings together foremost authorities on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The second edition reflects major research advances and the new diagnostic criteria in DSM-5. The dissociative subtype of PTSD, child assessment, couple and family therapies, and group treatments are examined. Other new chapters look at Internet-based interventions and tele-mental health technology. Also explored are the latest advances in research design and analysis, and the implementation of best practices. Diagnostic, conceptual, and treatment issues are reviewed in depth. The volume examines the causes and mechanisms of PTSD on multiple levels, from psychological processes to genes and neurobiology. After providing a historical overview of the development of traumatic stress studies, the book presents major scientific foundations and theoretical perspectives regarding psychological trauma and PTSD. Risk and resilience processes are addressed across development and in specific populations. Degenerative and traumatic brain injury, neuroplasticity, and neurochemistry are also considered. The section on clinical practice offers the latest information on evidence-based assessment and treatment approaches, from psychosocial treatments to pharmacotherapy. Trauma exposure and physical health, cultural expression of posttraumatic syndromes, and forensic issues are also discussed. Throughout, methodological considerations, the current state of the art, and challenges for the future are emphasized. The final section covers promising emerging interventions, including public health approaches. The integrative concluding chapter identifies key unanswered questions with important implications for science and practice. Authoritative and comprehensive, this timely handbook belongs on the desk of all those who study PTSD or treat trauma survivors in any setting. It is essential reading for clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, nurses, and clinicians and researchers in related fields, and will serve as a core text in graduate-level courses.

Grounding is a fundamental relationship between you and the magnificent, healing energies of the Earth. This natural alliance is necessary to experience being a more fully complete human who continually benefits from the supportive forces of the Earth and nature. Explore the depths of your personal Grounding and take a basic stand for your life to be profoundly alive, successful, healthy, balanced, and to have positive relations with others while living your life on your own terms. What would the Earth be like if we were a race of whole, responsible, Grounded people? Grounding brings increased awareness of your environment, to the forces of nature, to the Earth and its creatures. By being more present, you enhance your personal life and change the world to a place where you choose to participate in a more engaged and committed way. The more Grounded, responsible people establishing a profound intuitive relationship with the healing forces of the Earth shifts the consciousness of the whole. Make an effort to find new references for being in your body on the Earth in a way that is comfortable, stabilizing, healthy, meaningful, loving, healing, empowering and pleasurable. It’ll change your life; it’ll change the planet!

“Guarire dal trauma” è frutto di ricerca e lavoro clinico con vittime della violenza sessuale e domestica, con veterani di guerra e vittime del terrorismo politico. È un libro sulla possibilità di ristabilire i legami e, quindi, un libro sulla guarigione: tra il mondo pubblico e quello privato, tra l’individuo e la comunità, tra gli uomini e le donne. È un libro su ciò che hanno in comune le sopravvissute a stupri e i veterani di guerra, le donne maltrattate e violentate e i prigionieri politici, i sopravvissuti ai campi di concentramento…

Guarire la frammentazione del sé integra nozioni teoriche basate sulle conoscenze neurobiologiche a proposito di trauma, dissociazione e attaccamento con un approccio pratico al trattamento, attraverso un linguaggio diretto, accessibile sia al paziente sia al terapeuta. Viene presentato un modello che pone l’accento sulla “risoluzione”, una trasformazione della relazione con se stessi che sostituisce la vergogna, il disprezzo di sé e il senso di colpa con un’accettazione compassionevole. Gli interventi proposti sono stati adattati da numerosi modelli terapeutici all’avanguardia, che comprendono la psicoterapia sensomotoria, il modello degli Internai Family Systems, gli approcci terapeutici basati sulla mindfulness e l’ipnosi clinica. Il lettore arriverà alle pagine finali del volume con una salda comprensione dei modelli terapeutici rivolti all’attaccamento traumatico, del lavoro con i sintomi e i disturbi dissociativi non diagnosticati, dei metodi di trattamento basati sulla comunicazione “da emisfero destro a emisfero destro” e di molto altro ancora. Soprattutto, riceverà degli strumenti per aiutare i pazienti a creare un senso interiore di sicurezza e un legame compassionevole anche con le parti più disconosciute di sé.

An accessible user’s guide to overcoming trauma from the creator of a scientifically proven form of psychotherapy that has successfully treated millions of people worldwide.
Whether we’ve experienced small setbacks or major traumas, we are all influenced by our memories and by experiences we may not remember or fully understand. Getting Past Your Past offers practical techniques that demystify the human condition and empower readers looking to take charge of their lives.
Shapiro, the creator of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), explains how our personalities develop and why we become trapped into feeling, believing and acting in ways that don’t serve us. Through detailed examples and exercises readers will learn to understand themselves, and why the people in their lives act the way they do. Most importantly, readers will also learn techniques to improve their relationships, break through emotional barriers, overcome limitations, and excel in ways taught to Olympic athletes, successful executives, and performers.

Treating a confirmed or suspected case of childhood sexual abuse is undoubtedly one of the most challenging situations a clinician can face. This unique book, written by recognized experts on the evaluation and treatment of childhood sexual abuse, is the first to disseminate a comprehensive and integrative approach to treating child sexual abuse that combines the power of structured play therapy with cognitive- behavioral treatment. Created by the authors, game-based cognitive-behavioral therapy (GB-CBT) is a complete therapeutic package containing engaging techniques and effective strategies to treat the problems experienced by children and families impacted by sexual abuse.

First published in 1998. A research-based resource for helping professionals dealing with women who were sexually abused by female perpetrators, mainly mothers and grandmothers, this text focuses on the female perpetrator, defining what treatments have been found workable and providing an overview of the available literature. Secondly, the authors share the results from interviews with 85 women adult women survivors. Their journals, poems and artwork have been collated with what the women themselves have found to be both helpful and counterproductive methods of healing. The authors outline intentions and procedures for nonverbal methods of treatment that have proved effective in practice.

Basandosi sulla teoria della dissociazione strutturale della personalità integrata con la psicologia dell’azione di Janet, gli autori, dopo una lunga esperienza clinica con pazienti traumatizzati, hanno sviluppato un modello di intervento a più fasi centrato sull’identificazione e il trattamento della dissociazione strutturale. La terapia ha l’obiettivo di aumentare la capacità del paziente di adattarsi all’ambiente, per affrontare i compiti della vita quotidiana e tenere a bada i fantasmi legati a ricordi traumatici non elaborati.

Addressing emotional workplace abuse, this Palgrave Pivot takes a multidisciplinary approach which combines feminist research on violence with organisation and management studies, in order to offer a new approach on workplace violations. The book analyses why it is difficult for targets and organisations alike to name and identify emotional abuse and addresses the severe negative effects of abuse on the targets’ lives. It brings ethical leadership to the fore as a means to foster sustainable organisations. Using empirical data and research, this book highlights subtle forms of violations that take place in the workplace, and provides analysis from the perspective of the target. A valuable read for scholars and practitioners involved in organisational management and HRM, Emotional Workplace Abuse will help readers to understand the importance of sustainable leadership in preventing emotional workplace abuse.