Trauma Spectrum: Hidden Wounds And Human Resiliency

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W. W. Norton & Company, Jul 5, 2005 - Psychology - 308 pages
A neurologist's view of our response to trauma.

Our experiences of trauma sow the seeds of many persistent and misunderstood medical problems such as chronic fatigue syndrome and various maladies of the immune system. Because of our inadequate understanding of the relationship of mind and body in processing these traumas, many of us suffer needlessly from our exposure to life's traumas. Robert Scaer offers hope to those who wish to transform trauma and better understand their lives.
 

Contents

Trauma and Meaning
1
Brain Mechanisms and Trauma
11
The BrainMindBody Continuum
13
How the Brain Helps Us to Survive
28
Trauma As Imprisonment of the Mind
58
Genes Experience and Behavior
77
The Trauma Spectrum
97
Preverbal Trauma
99
The Trauma of Illness and Its Treatment
151
Trauma in Health and Disease
175
Somatic Dissociation Conversion Hysteria Stigmata and Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy
177
Diseases of Stress and Trauma
205
Healing Trauma and the Power of the Human Spirit
252
Understanding Your Life
285
References
291
Index
299

The Spectrum of Societal Trauma From Neglect to Violence
126

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About the author (2005)

Robert Scaer, MD, a board-certified neurologist with forty years of clinical experience, lives in Louisville, Colorado.

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