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Tables of Contents for The Body Remembers
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
xi
On Building Bridges
xi
Working with the Body Does Not Require Touch
xiv
The False Memory Controversy
xiv
Organization of This Book
xv
A Disclaimer
xv
PART I: THEORY
Overview of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): The Impact of Trauma on Body and Mind
3
12
Charlie and the Dog, Part I
4
2
The Symptomatology of PTSD
6
1
Distinguishing Stress, Traumatic Stress, PTS, and PTSD
7
1
Survival and the Nervous System
8
4
Defensive Response to Remembered Threat
12
1
Dissociation, Freezing, and PTSD
13
1
Consequences of Trauma and PTSD
13
2
Development, Memory, and the Brain
15
22
The Developing Brain
16
10
What is Memory?
26
11
The Body Remembers: Understanding Somatic Memory
37
28
The Sensory Roots of Memory
38
7
Charlie and the Dog, Part II
45
1
The Autonomic Nervous System: Hyperarousal and the Reflexes of Fight, Flight, and Freeze
46
4
The Somatic Nervous System: Muscles, Movement, and Kinesthetic Memory
50
6
Emotions and the Body
56
9
Expressions of Trauma Not Yet Remembered: Dissociation and Flashbacks
65
12
Dissociation and the Body
66
4
Flashbacks
70
7
PART II: PRACTICE
First, Do No Harm
77
23
On Braking and Accelerating
78
2
Evaluation and Assessment
80
2
The Role of the Therapeutic Relationship in Trauma Therapy
82
5
Safety
87
1
Developing and Reacquainting Resources
88
4
Oases, Anchors, and the Safe Place
92
4
The Importance of Theory
96
2
Respecting Individual Differences
98
1
Ten Foundations for Safe Trauma Therapy
98
2
The Body as Resource
100
29
Body Awareness
100
6
Making Friends with Sensations
106
1
The Body as Anchor
107
2
The Body as Gauge
109
6
The Body as Brake
115
1
The Body as Diary: Making Sense of Sensations
116
2
Somatic Memory as Resource
118
2
Facilitating Trauma Therapy Using the Body as Resource
120
9
Additional Somatic Techniques for Safer Trauma Therapy
129
21
Dual Awareness
129
6
Muscle Toning: Tension vs. Relaxation
135
5
Physical Boundaries
140
7
The Question of Client-Therapist Touch
147
1
Mitigating Session Closure
148
2
Somatic Memory Becomes Personal History
150
24
Beware the Wrong Road
151
4
Separating Past from Present
155
1
Working with the Aftermath of the Trauma First
156
4
Bridging the Implicit and the Explicit
160
11
Charlie and the Dog, the Final Episode
171
3
References
174
6
Index
180