BodyDreaming in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma

BodyDreaming in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma
Author: Marian Dunlea
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2019-04-24
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 042967726X

Winner of the NAAP 2019 Gradiva® Award! Winner of the IAJS Book Award for Best Book published in 2019! Marian Dunlea’s BodyDreaming in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma: An Embodied Therapeutic Approach provides a theoretical and practical guide for working with early developmental trauma. This interdisciplinary approach explores the interconnection of body, mind and psyche, offering a masterful tool for restoring balance and healing developmental trauma. BodyDreaming is a somatically focused therapeutic method, drawing on the findings of neuroscience, analytical psychology, attachment theory and trauma therapy. In Part I, Dunlea defines BodyDreaming and its origins, placing it in the context of a dysregulated contemporary world. Part II explains how the brain works in relation to the BodyDreaming approach: providing an accessible outline of neuroscientific theory, structures and neuroanatomy in attunement, affect regulation, attachment patterns, transference and countertransference, and the resolution of trauma throughout the body. In Part III, through detailed transcripts from sessions with clients, Dunlea demonstrates the positive impact of BodyDreaming on attachment patterns and developmental trauma. This somatic approach complements and enhances psychobiological, developmental and psychoanalytic interventions. BodyDreaming restores balance to a dysregulated psyche and nervous system that activates our innate capacity for healing, changing our default response of "fight, flight or freeze" and creating new neural pathways. Dunlea’s emphasis on attunement to build a restorative relationship with the sensing body creates a core sense of self, providing a secure base for healing developmental trauma. Innovative and practical, and with a foreword by Donald E. Kalsched, BodyDreaming in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma: An Embodied Therapeutic Approach will be essential reading for psychotherapists, analytical psychologists and therapists with a Jungian background, arts therapists, dance and movement therapists, and body workers interested in learning how to work with both body and psyche in their practices.

BodyDreaming in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma

BodyDreaming in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma
Author: Marian Dunlea
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
ISBN: 9780367025946

Marian Dunlea's BodyDreaming provides a theoretical and practical guide for working with early developmental trauma. This interdisciplinary approach explores the interconnection of body, mind and psyche, offering a masterful tool for restoring balance and healing developmental trauma.

Trauma and Dreams

Trauma and Dreams
Author: Deirdre Barrett
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2001-10-30
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780674006904

Finally, this volume concludes with a look at the potential "traumas of normal life," such as divorce, bereavement, and life-threatening illness, and the role of dreams in working through normal grief and loss

The Inner World of Trauma

The Inner World of Trauma
Author: Donald Kalsched
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2014-02-25
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 131772545X

Donald Kalsched explores the interior world of dream and fantasy images encountered in therapy with people who have suffered unbearable life experiences. He shows how, in an ironical twist of psychical life, the very images which are generated to defend the self can become malevolent and destructive, resulting in further trauma for the person. Why and how this happens are the questions the book sets out to answer. Drawing on detailed clinical material, the author gives special attention to the problems of addiction and psychosomatic disorder, as well as the broad topic of dissociation and its treatment. By focusing on the archaic and primitive defenses of the self he connects Jungian theory and practice with contemporary object relations theory and dissociation theory. At the same time, he shows how a Jungian understanding of the universal images of myth and folklore can illuminate treatment of the traumatised patient. Trauma is about the rupture of those developmental transitions that make life worth living. Donald Kalsched sees this as a spiritual problem as well as a psychological one and in The Inner World of Trauma he provides a compelling insight into how an inner self-care system tries to save the personal spirit.

Leaving My Father's House

Leaving My Father's House
Author: Marion Woodman
Publisher: Boston : Shambhala ; [Toronto?] : Distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada
Total Pages: 400
Release: 1992
Genre: Psychology
ISBN:

A bestselling author of books on women's psychology explores the journey toward complete womanhood--"conscious femininity". Woodman (Addiction to Perfection) demonstrates the striving of contemporary women for inner balance and wholeness in a patriarchal society that resists the process. 6 halftones.

Metaphor and Meaning in Psychotherapy

Metaphor and Meaning in Psychotherapy
Author: Ellen Y. Siegelman
Publisher: Guilford Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 1993-08-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780898620146

When therapists hear patients talk of feeling "imprisoned," "burning with rage," "trapped," or "unequipped," they are witnessing manifestations of the symbolic attitude, the hallmark of all depth psychology. Most clinicians naturally respond to and use metaphors, but they often fail to understand the full potential of metaphoric images. This volume, in addressing the transforming power of metaphor, demonstrates how clinicians can deepen the therapeutic encounter.

Bone

Bone
Author: Marion Woodman
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2001-12-01
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780140196283

On November 7, 1993, Marion Woodman was diagnosed with uterine cancer. Here, in journal form, is the story of her illness, her healing process, and her acceptance of life and death. Breathtakingly honest about the factors she feels contributed to her cancer, Woodman also explains how she drew upon every resource-physical and spiritual-available to her to come to terms with her illness. Dreams and imagery, self-reflection and body work, and both traditional and alternative medicine play distinctive roles in Woodman's recovery. Her personal treasury of art, photographs, and quotations-from Dickinson to Blake to Rumi-embellish this unique chronicle of a very personal journey toward transformation.

Separation Anxiety Disorder in Adults

Separation Anxiety Disorder in Adults
Author: Vijaya Manicavasagar
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2020-03-12
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0128125551

Separation Anxiety Disorder in Adults provides a comprehensive foundation for understanding the development, manifestation, and treatment of adult separation anxiety. The book explores precursors and triggers to both childhood and adult separation anxiety disorder, comorbidity with other disorders and conditions, and characteristics of populations and individuals with separation anxiety. Assessment and treatment are comprehensively covered, discussing how treatment for adults difers from that for children. Clinical review questionnaires are included for immediate use in practice. - Reviews the diagnosis, assessment, management, and treatment of adult separation anxiety - Covers how treatment for adults differs from that for children - Identifies precursors and triggers to separation anxiety - Discusses comorbidity with other disorders and conditions - Includes clinical review questionnaire measures

Deep Blues

Deep Blues
Author: Mark Winborn
Publisher: Fisher King Press
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2011
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1926715527

Deep Blues explores the archetypal journey of the human psyche through an examination of the blues as a musical genre. The genesis, history, and thematic patterns of the blues are examined from an archetypal perspective and various analytic theories. Mythological and shamanistic parallels are used to provide a deeper understanding of the role of the bluesman, the blues performance, and the innate healing potential of the blues. Universal aspects of human experience and transcendence are revealed through the creative medium of the blues. The atmosphere of Deep Blues is enhanced by the black and white photographs of Tom Smith which capture striking blues performances in the Maxwell Street section of Chicago. Jungian analysts, therapists and psychoanalytic practitioners with an interest in the interaction between creative expression and human experience should find Deep Blues satisfying. Deep Blues should also appeal to enthusiasts of music, ethnomusicology, and the blues.