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The body bears the burden : trauma, dissociation, and disease  Cover Image Book Book

The body bears the burden : trauma, dissociation, and disease / Robert C. Scaer.

Scaer, Robert C. (Author).

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  • ISBN: 0789012464 (soft)
  • ISBN: 0789012456 (hard)
  • Physical Description: xxvi, 250 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Haworth Medical Press, 2001.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-237) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Concepts of traumatization: the role of boundaries -- Trauma, instinct, and the brain: the fight/flight/freeze response -- The Whiplash Syndrome I: symptoms in search of a meaning -- The Whiplash Syndrome II: a model for traumatization -- Trauma and brain plasticity -- Diseases of traumatic stress -- Trauma reenactment -- Somatic dissociation -- Sources of trauma -- Trauma therapy: future directions -- Case histories: the somatic spectrum of trauma.
Subject: Post-traumatic stress disorder > Treatment
Bioenergetic psychotherapy
Mind and body therapies
Somatoform disorders > Treatment.


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