Healing the traumatized self : consciousness, neuroscience, treatment

Frewen, Paul, author.

Book 2015

"A neurobiological explanation of self-awareness and the states of mind of severely traumatized people. Cultivation of emotional awareness is difficult, even for those of us not afflicted by serious mental illness. This book discusses the neurobiology behind emotional states and presents exercises for developing self awareness. Topics include mood (both unipolar and bipolar), anxiety (particularly PTSD), and dissociative disorders. Frewen and Lan...

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ISBN:

9780393705515
039370551X

Edition:

First edition

Description:

xxx, 440 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

The varieties of posttraumatic experience : a four-dimensional model
What is it like? : neurophenomenology as a methodology for psychotraumatology
Consciousness of time : when the 'now' slows down, and when then becomes now
Consciousness of thought : negative content, fragmented plots, and altered perspective
Consciousness of the body : derealization and depersonalization : when the world is strange and the body is estranged
Consciousness of emotion : feeling too much and feeling too little
Liberating the traumatized self : resilience and recovery
Appendix. case studies in trauma-related altered states of consciousness (trasc) : a phenomenological inquiry into the traumatized self

LCCN:

2014036987

Control Number:

3033533

Other Authors:

Lanius, Ruth A., 1968- author

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