Splintered Reflections Images Of The Body In Trauma

by Goodwin, Jean; Attias, Reina

• ISBN13: 9780465095445
• ISBN10: 0465095445
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-06-23
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

In overwhelming trauma, when words fail, it is the body that begins to speak. How can clinicians listen to the body and understand its messages? This book is both a detailed review of the body symptoms and body image distortions found after trauma and a textbook of psychotherapy techniques to repair broken metaphors about the body so that the body-self and its functioning can be restored. Multiple theoretical perspectivesFreudian psychoanalytic theory, attachment theory, trauma theoryare synthesized to shape an interlocking framework within which the therapist can listen and stay with the messages from the patient's body. The reader is guided by detailed clinical examples drawn from an international group of trauma therapists that includes Barry Cohen, Richard Kluft, Bruce Perry, Valerie Sinason and Onno van der Hart.

Author Biography

Jean Goodwin, M.D., M.P.H., is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. Her books include Sexual Abuse: Incest Victims and Their Families and Rediscovering Childhood Trauma. Reina Attias, Ph.D., is a therapist in private practice, specializing in childhood trauma. The has co-authored numerous scholarly articles. Jean Goodwin, M.D., M.P.H., is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. Her books include Sexual Abuse: Incest Victims and Their Families and Rediscovering Childhood Trauma. Reina Attias, Ph.D., is a therapist in private practice, specializing in childhood trauma. The has co-authored numerous scholarly articles.

Table of Contents

Introduction How to Use This Book	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
List of Contributors	p. xv
Symptoms Body Responses to Trauma	p. 1
The Memories of States How the Brain Stores and Retrieves Traumatic Experience	p. 9
Forgetting and Reexperiencing Trauma	p. 39
Assessment and Management of Somatoform Symptoms in Traumatized Patients Conceptual Overview and Pragmatic Guide	p. 67
Somatoform Dissociative Phenomena	p. 89
Experiences	p. 129
Body Image and Self-Perception in Women with Histories of Incest	p. 137
Body-Image Distortion and Childhood Sexual Abuse	p. 155
Conversations with the Body Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Body Image and Body Ego	p. 167
Challenged Bodies, Wounded Body Images Richard III and Hephaestus	p. 183
Psychotherapy	p. 195
Skin/Paper/Bark	p. 203
Notes	p. 219
Traumatic Disruption of Bodily Experience and Memory	p. 223
Body-Ego Integration in Dissociative Identity Disorder	p. 239
Metamorphosis	p. 257
Reflections	p. 281
A Place to Begin	p. 287
Index	p. 305
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