The body bears the burden : trauma, dissociation, and disease / Robert C. Scaer.
Publication details: New York : Haworth Medical Press, c2007.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xxvi, 275 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780789033352
- 9780789033345
- 616.85/21 22
- RC552.P67 S2236 2007
Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | MHERC PTSD | 616.85/21 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Using the clinical model ofthe whiplash syndrome, this groundbreaking book describes the alterations in brain chemistry and function induced in individuals by traumatic stress ortraumatization-experiencing a life-threatening event while in astate ofhelplessness. The Body Bears the Burden: Trauma, Dissociation, and Disease, Second Edition is impressive empirical evidence that body, brain, and mind are acontinuum and presents a powerful new paradigm to medical and mental health professionals, as well as new hope to sufferers from trauma. | A41294404 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 of the brain in trauma -- Trauma and brain plasticity -- Somatic dissociation -- Diseases of traumatic stress -- Trauma reenactment -- Sources of trauma -- Trauma therapy : essential ingredients -- Case histories : the somatic spectrum of trauma.
"Using the clinical model ofthe whiplash syndrome, this groundbreaking book describes the alterations in brain chemistry and function induced in individuals by traumatic stress ortraumatization-experiencing a life-threatening event while in astate ofhelplessness. The Body Bears the Burden: Trauma, Dissociation, and Disease, Second Edition is impressive empirical evidence that body, brain, and mind are acontinuum and presents a powerful new paradigm to medical and mental health professionals, as well as new hope to sufferers from trauma."--BOOK JACKET.