{"product_id":"trauma-and-the-body-a-sensorimotor-approach-to-psychotherapy-norton-series-on-interpersonal-neurobiology-9780393704570","title":"Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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 clients body  thoughtful engagement with the clients 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.  Topics addressed include: Cognitive  emotional  and sensorimotor dimensions of information processing modulating arousal dyadic regulation and the body the orienting response defensive subsystems adaptation and action systems treatment principles skills for working with the body in present time developing somatic resources for stabilization processing\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651855802421,"sku":"ByrdShop_0393704572","price":41.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780393704570.jpg?v=1781842325","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/trauma-and-the-body-a-sensorimotor-approach-to-psychotherapy-norton-series-on-interpersonal-neurobiology-9780393704570","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}