The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment

Babette Rothschild

Overview – Excerpt – Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

• On Building Bridges
• Working with the Body Does Not Require Touch
• The False Memory Controversy
• Organization of This Book
• A Disclaimer

PART I: THEORY

1. Overview of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): The Impact of Trauma on Body and Mind Charlie and the Dog, Part I
• The Symptomatology of PTSD
• Distinguishing Stress, Traumatic Stress, PTS, and PTSD
• Survival and the Nervous System
• Defensive Response to Remembered Threat
• Dissociation, Freezing, and PTSD
• Consequences of Trauma and PTSD
2. Development, Memory, and the Brain
• The Developing Brain
• What is Memory?
3. The Body Remembers: Understanding Somatic Memory
• The Sensory Roots of Memory
• The Autonomic Nervous System:
  Hyperarousal and the Reflexes of Fight, Flight, and Freeze
• The Somatic Nervous System: Muscles, Movement, and Kinesthetic Memory
• Emotions and the Body
4. Expressions of Trauma Not Yet Remembered: Dissociation and Flashbacks
• Dissociation and the Body
• Flashbacks

PART II: PRACTICE

5. First, Do No Harm
• On Braking and Accelerating
• Evaluation and Assessment
• The Role of the Therapeutic Relationship in Trauma Therapy
• Safety
• Developing and Reacquainting Resources
• Oases, Anchors, and the Safe Place
• The Importance of Theory
• Respecting Individual Differences
• Ten Foundations for Safe Trauma Therapy
6. The Body as Resource
• Body Awareness
• Making Friends with Sensations
• The Body as Anchor
• The Body as Gauge
• The Body as Brake
• The Body as Diary: Making Sense of Sensations
• Somatic Memory as Resource
• Facilitating Trauma Therapy Using the Body as Resource
7. Additional Somatic Techniques for Safer Trauma Therapy
• Dual Awareness
• Muscle Toning: Tension vs. Relaxation
• Physical Boundaries
• The Question of Client-Therapist Touch
• Mitigating Session Closure
8. Somatic Memory Becomes Personal History
• Beware the Wrong Road
• Separating Past from Present
• Working with the Aftermath of the Trauma First
• Bridging the Implicit and The Explicit

REFERENCES
INDEX

ISBN: 0-393-70327-4
October, 2000
Hardcover, 224 pages