The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships - Couverture rigide

Badenoch, Bonnie

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0393710483 ISBN 13 : 9780393710489

Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 2017

Synopsis

How each of us can become a therapeutic presence in the world.

The ability to offer the safe sanctuary of presence is central to treating trauma and therapeutic practice. This book offers brain- and body-based insights and skills for the reader to heal, not only clients, but also themselves.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Bonnie Badenoch, MA, LMFT, is a marriage and family therapist, an instructor at Portland State University in the Interpersonal Neurobiology certificate program, and cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Nurturing the Heart with the Brain In Mind in Vancouver, WA. Stephen W. Porges, PhD, is Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University, where he directs the Trauma Research Center within the Kinsey Institute. He holds the position of Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Maryland. He served as president of both the Society for Psychophysiological Research and the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences and is a former recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Development Award. He has published more than 250 peer-reviewed scientific papers across several disciplines including anaesthesiology, biomedical engineering, critical care medicine, ergonomics, exercise physiology, gerontology, neurology, neuroscience, obstetrics, pediatrics, psychiatry, psychology, psychometrics, space medicine, and substance abuse. In 1994 he proposed the Polyvagal Theory, a theory that links the evolution of the mammalian autonomic nervous system to social behavior and emphasizes the importance of physiological state in the expression of behavioral problems and psychiatric disorders. The theory is leading to innovative treatments based on insights into the mechanisms mediating symptoms observed in several behavioral, psychiatric, and physical disorders.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: WW Norton & Co
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0393710483
• ISBN 13: 9780393710489
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 360
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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