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Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology) by Pat Ogden; Kekuni Minton; Clare Pain; Daniel J. Siegel; Bessel A. van der Kolk is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology) about?

**The body, for a host of reasons, has been left out of the "talking cure."** Psychotherapists who have been trained in models of psychodynamic, psychoanalytic, or cognitive therapeutic approaches are skilled at listening to the language and affect of the client. They track the clients' associations, fantasies, and signs of psychic conflict, distress, and defenses. Yet while the majority of therapists are trained to notice the appearance and even the movements of the client's body, thoughtful engagement with the client's embodied experience has remained peripheral to traditional therapeutic interventions. __Trauma and the Body__ is a detailed review of research in neuroscience, trauma, dissociation, and attachment theory that points to the need for an integrative mind-body approach to trauma. The premise of this book is that, by adding body-oriented interventions to their repertoire, traditionally trained therapists can increase the depth and efficacy of their clinical work. Sensorimotor psychotherapy is an approach that builds on traditional psychotherapeutic understanding but includes the body as central in the therapeutic field of awareness, using observational skills, theories,

Who reads Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)?

Author

Pat Ogden; Kekuni Minton; Clare Pain; Daniel J. Siegel; Bessel A. van der Kolk

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393704570

Category

science

Subjects

Medical, Psychology, Fiction

Rating

4.33 / 5 (263 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14