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The body bears the burden : trauma, dissociation, and disease / Robert Scaer
- Author
- Scaer, Robert C.
- Published
- New York : Routledge, 2014.
- Edition
- Third edition.
- Physical Description
- xxii, 222 pages ; 23 cm
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Concepts of Traumatization: The Role of Boundaries -- The Concept of Boundaries -- The Role of Boundaries in Trauma -- Boundaries and Childhood -- Conclusion -- ch. 2 Trauma, Instinct, and the Brain: The Fight/Flight/Freeze Response -- The Neurophysiology of Trauma -- Brain Responses to Stress -- Fighting, Fleeing, or Freezing -- The Animal Model -- The Freeze Discharge -- The Human Anomaly -- Conclusion -- ch. 3 The Whiplash Syndrome I: Symptoms in Search of a Meaning -- The History of Whiplash -- The Clinical Syndrome -- Physical Forces and Structural Injury -- The Pathophysiology of Whiplash -- Myofascial Pain -- Thoracic Outlet Syndrome (TOS) -- Piriformis Syndrome -- Temporomandibular Joint Syndrome (TMJ) -- Minor Traumatic Brain Injury (MTBI) -- Neurological Symptoms -- Emotional Symptoms -- Conclusion -- ch. 4 The Whiplash Syndrome II: A Model of the Brain in Trauma -- Memory Mechanisms in Trauma -- Declarative Versus Nondeclarative Memory -- Somatic Responses to Stress -- The Meaning of Speed -- Vehicular Transport and Society -- The Automobile as a Threat -- The Neurophysiology of Trauma in Whiplash -- Kindling and Trauma -- Cognitive Deficits in Trauma -- Trauma and Post-Concussion Syndrome -- Binocular Dysfunction -- Vestibular and Autonomic Dysfunction -- Neuromuscular Dysfunction and Myofascial Pain -- Head and Neck Myofascial Pain -- Conclusion -- ch. 5 Bonding, Attunement, and Concepts of Homeostasis -- The Neurophysiology of Attunement and the Developing Brain -- The Development of Character -- The Polyvagal Theory -- The Dorsal Vagal Complex -- The Ventral Vagal Complex -- Conclusion -- ch. 6 Negative Neuroplasticity: Does Trauma Damage the Brain? -- The History of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Psychiatry -- Brain Plasticity In Trauma -- Objective Measurements of Brain Change in Trauma -- The Permanence of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder -- Conclusion -- ch. 7 Somatic Dissociation -- Examples of Dissociation -- Memory in Dissociation -- Cognitive and Emotional Features -- Dissociative Physical Symptoms -- Conversion Hysteria and Dissociation -- The Autonomic Nervous System in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder -- The Concept of Boundaries -- The Spectrum of Somatic Dissociation -- The Dissociative Capsule -- Conclusion -- ch. 8 Diseases of Traumatic Stress -- The Pathophysiology of Stress -- Stress Versus Trauma -- The Hypothalamic/Pituitary/Adrenal Axis -- Stress, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Immune Function -- The Diseases of Trauma -- Chronic Pain -- Somatic Dissociation and Disease -- Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy -- Fibromyalgia/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome -- Somatization Disorders -- Morbidity and Mortality -- Conclusion -- ch. 9 Trauma Reenactment -- Introduction -- The Roots of Reenactment -- Clinical Features -- Gender Differences -- The Anniversary Syndrome -- Reenactment Through Risk Taking -- Conclusion -- ch. 10 Sources of Trauma -- Introduction -- The Definition of Traumatic Stress -- Exposure to Combat -- Child Abuse -- Societal Trauma -- Medical Trauma -- Anesthesia, Surgery, and Critical Medical Illness -- The Role of Past Trauma -- Awareness During Anesthesia -- Pediatric Medical Trauma -- Fetal and Neonatal Trauma -- Birth Trauma -- Circumcision -- Childhood Medical Trauma -- Conclusion -- ch. 11 Trauma Therapy: Essential Ingredients -- Cognitive/Verbal Therapy -- Exposure and Desensitization Techniques -- Somatically Based Therapies -- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) -- Somatic Experiencing (SE) -- Energy Psychology -- Brainspotting (BST) -- Neurofeedback -- The Search for the Essential Ingredient -- Pharmacotherapy of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder -- Conclusion -- ch. 12 Case Histories: The Somatic Spectrum of Trauma -- A State of Vulnerability -- Somatic Representations of Prior Trauma -- Medical and Forensic Trauma -- Multiple Chemical Sensitivities -- The Mysterious Piriformis -- Disorders of Speech in Trauma -- Spasmodic Torticollis: An Aberration of the Orienting Reflex -- Dissociation and Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy -- Comments.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780415641517 (hardback : alk. paper)
0415641519 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780415641524 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0415641527 (pbk. : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Source of Acquisition
- Purchased with funds from the Highmark Blue Shield Education Fund; 2013.
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