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

    • Title:The body bears the burden : trauma, dissociation, and disease / Robert C. Scaer.
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    • Author/Creator:Scaer, Robert C.
    • Published/Created:New York : Haworth Medical Press, ©2007.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Post-traumatic stress disorder--Treatment.
      Bioenergetic psychotherapy.
      Mind and body therapies.
      Somatoform disorders--Treatment.
    • Edition:2nd ed.
    • Description:xxvi, 275 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780789033345 (hard 13 : alk. paper)
      0789033348 (hard 13 : alk. paper)
      9780789033352 (soft 13 : alk. paper)
      0789033356 (soft 13 : alk. paper)
    • Contents:Foreword / Bessel A. van der Kolk
      Ch. 1. Concepts of Traumatization: The Role of Boundaries
      Concept of Boundaries
      Role of Boundaries in Trauma
      Boundaries and Childhood
      Ch. 2. Trauma, Instinct, and the Brain: The Fight/Flight/Freeze Response
      Neurophysiology of Trauma
      Brain Responses to Stress
      Fighting, Fleeing, or Freezing
      Ch. 3. Whiplash Syndrome I: Symptoms in Search of a Meaning
      History of Whiplash
      Clinical Syndrome
      Physical Forces and Structural Injury
      Pathophysiology of Whiplash
      Ch. 4. Whiplash Syndrome II: A Model of the Brain in Trauma
      Memory Mechanisms in Trauma
      Somatic Responses to Stress
      Meaning of Speed
      Physiology of Trauma
      Ch. 5. Trauma and Brain Plasticity
      History of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Psychiatry
      Developing Brain
      Development of Character
      Brain Plasticity in Trauma
      Objective Measures of Brain Change in Trauma
      Permanence of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
      Ch. 6. Somatic Dissociation
      Examples of Dissociation
      Memory in Dissociation
      Cognitive and Emotional Features
      Dissociative Physical Symptoms
      Conversion Hysteria and Dissociation
      Autonomic Nervous System in Post-Traumatic
      Stress Disorder
      Concept of Boundaries
      Spectrum of Somatic Dissociation
      Dissociative Capsule
      Ch. 7. Diseases of Traumatic Stress
      Pathophysiology of Stress
      Stress versus Trauma
      Hypothalamic/Pituitary/Adrenal Axis
      Stress, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and immune Function
      Diseases of Trauma
      Morbidity and Mortality
      Ch. 8. Trauma Reenactment
      Roots of Reenactment
      Clinical Features
      Gender Differences
      Anniversary Syndrome
      Reenactment Through Risk Taking
      Ch. 9. Sources of Trauma
      Definition of Traumatic Stress
      Exposure to Combat
      Child Abuse
      Societal Trauma
      Medical Trauma
      Role of Past Trauma
      Awareness During Anesthesia
      Pediatric Medical Trauma
      Childhood Medical Trauma
      Ch. 10. Trauma Therapy: Essential Ingredients
      Cognitive/Verbal Therapy
      Exposure and Desensitization Techniques
      Somatically Based Therapies181
      Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
      Somatic Experiencing
      Energy Psychology
      Neurofeedback
      Search for the Essential Ingredient
      Pharmacotherapy of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
      Ch. 11. Case Histories: The Somatic Spectrum of Trauma
      State of Vulnerability
      Somatic Representations of Prior Trauma
      Medical and Forensic Trauma
      Multiple Chemical Sensitivities
      Mysterious Piriformis
      Disorders of Speech in Trauma
      Spasmodic Torticollis: An Aberration of the Orienting Reflex
      Dissociation and Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy.
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