| Splintered Reflections: Images of the Body in Trauma Contributor(s): Goodwin, Jean (Author), Attias, Reina (Author) |
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ISBN: 0465095445 ISBN-13: 9780465095445 Publisher: Basic Books OUR PRICE: $47.52 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 1999 Annotation: In trauma, when words fail, the body begins to speak. How can clinicians accurately and attentively "hear" the body and understand its messages? Useful both as a text and a professional handbook, Splintered Reflections is a detailed review of the physical symptoms and body-image distortions found after trauma, as well as a textbook of methods aimed at repairing the broken metaphors of the body so that a healthy mind-body relationship can be restored. Among the various psychotherapeutic techniques explored are Freudian psychoanalytic theory, attachment theory, and trauma theory, all synthesized to form an interlocking framework within which the therapist can effectively 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Physiological Psychology |
| Dewey: 616.852 |
| LCCN: 2011282791 |
| Lexile Measure: 1350 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.35 lbs) 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 perspectives--Freudian psychoanalytic theory, attachment theory, trauma theory--are 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. |