BodyDreaming in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma by Dunlea, Marian (9780367025946) | Browns Books
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BodyDreaming in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma : An Embodied Therapeutic Approach

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Winner of the NAAP 2019 Gradiva® Award!Winner of the IAJS Book Award for Best Book published in 2019!Marian Dunlea’s BodyDreaming in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma: An Embodied Therapeutic Approach provides a theoretical and practical guide for working with early developmental trauma.

This interdisciplinary approach explores the interconnection of body, mind and psyche, offering a masterful tool for restoring balance and healing developmental trauma.

BodyDreaming is a somatically focused therapeutic method, drawing on the findings of neuroscience, analytical psychology, attachment theory and trauma therapy.

In Part I, Dunlea defines BodyDreaming and its origins, placing it in the context of a dysregulated contemporary world.

Part II explains how the brain works in relation to the BodyDreaming approach: providing an accessible outline of neuroscientific theory, structures and neuroanatomy in attunement, affect regulation, attachment patterns, transference and countertransference, and the resolution of trauma throughout the body.

In Part III, through detailed transcripts from sessions with clients, Dunlea demonstrates the positive impact of BodyDreaming on attachment patterns and developmental trauma.

This somatic approach complements and enhances psychobiological, developmental and psychoanalytic interventions.

BodyDreaming restores balance to a dysregulated psyche and nervous system that activates our innate capacity for healing, changing our default response of "fight, flight or freeze" and creating new neural pathways.

Dunlea’s emphasis on attunement to build a restorative relationship with the sensing body creates a core sense of self, providing a secure base for healing developmental trauma.

Innovative and practical, and with a foreword by Donald E.

Kalsched, BodyDreaming in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma: An Embodied Therapeutic Approach will be essential reading for psychotherapists, analytical psychologists and therapists with a Jungian background, arts therapists, dance and movement therapists, and body workers interested in learning how to work with both body and psyche in their practices.

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Product Details
Routledge
0367025949 / 9780367025946
Paperback / softback
13/05/2019
United Kingdom
English
290 pages : illustrations (black and white)

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