Educational Objectives:

This course will teach psychotherapists to
• Apply psychophysical theory in practice with traumatized patients.
• Detect facilitating and debilitating levels of arousal.
• Propose varieties of resources.
• Utilize somatic-based interventions to reduce and contain hyperarousal.

Course Syllabus: Book's Table of Contents

• Introduction
  On Building Bridges
  Working with the Body Does Not Require Touch
  The False Memory Controversy
  Organization of this Book
  A Disclaimer
• THEORY:
  
• Overview of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): The Impact of Trauma on Body and Mind
  Charlie and the Dog, Part I
  The Symptomatology of PTSD
  Distinguishing Stress, Traumatic Stress, PTS and PTSD
  Survival and the Nervous System
  Defensive Response to Remembered Threat
  Dissociation, Freezing and PTSD
  Consequences of Trauma and PTSD
  
• Development, Memory, and the Brain
  The Developing Brain
  What is Memory?
  
• The Body Remembers: Understanding Somatic Memory
  The Sensory Roots of Memory
  The Autonomic Nervous System
  Hyperarousal and the Reflexes of Fight, Flight, and Freeze
  The Somatic Nervous System: Muscles, Movement, and Kinesthetic Memory
  Emotions and the Body
  
• Expressions of Trauma Not Yet Remembered: Dissociation and Flashbacks
  Dissociation and the Body
  Flashbacks
  
• PRACTICE
  
• First, Do No Harm
  On Braking and Accelerating
  Evaluation and Assessment
  The Role of the Therapeutic Relationship in Trauma Therapy
  Safety
  Developing and Reacquainting Resources
  Oases, Anchors and the Safe Place
  The Importance of Theory
  Respecting Individual Differences
  Ten Foundations for Safe Trauma Therapy
  
• The Body As Resource
  Body Awareness
  Making Friends with Sensations
  The Body as Anchor
  The Body as Gauge
  The Body as Brake
  The Body as Diary: Making Sense of Sensations
  Somatic Memory as Resource
  Facilitating Trauma Therapy Using the Body as Resource
  
• Additional Somatic Techniques for Safer Trauma Therapy
  Dual Awareness
  Muscle Toning: Tension vs. Relaxation
  Physical Boundaries
  The Question of Client-Therapist Touch
  Mitigating Session Closure
  
• Somatic Memory Becomes Personal History
  Beware the Wrong Road
  Separating Past from Present
  Working with the Aftermath of the Trauma First
  Bridging the Implicit and the Explicit
  
• References

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