Bessel A. van der Kolk

"The body keeps the score", en bok om trauma och minne av en känd psykolog.

Traumer er for mange en del av livet. Bessel van der Kolk er en av verdens ledende spesialister innen traumebehandling. På bakgrunn av den nyeste forskningen på området viser han hvordan traumer forandrer kropp og hjerne på en måte som påvirker vår selvkontroll, vår evne til å føle glede, engasjement og tillit. Han tar i bruk innovative behandlingsmetoder - fra nevrofeedback og meditasjon til sport, drama og yoga - og viser nye veier til helbredelse av kropp, sinn og hjerne. Basert på van der Kolks egen forskning, kombinert med andre ledende spesialister, viser Kroppen holder regnskap hvordan forholdet til folk rundt oss både kan skade og helbrede. Boken gir nytt håp om å kunne ta tilbake livet.

In Trauma and Memory, bestselling author Dr. Peter Levine (creator of the Somatic Experiencing approach) tackles one of the most difficult and controversial questions of PTSD/trauma therapy: Can we trust our memories? While some argue that traumatic memories are unreliable and not useful, others insist that we absolutely must rely on memory to make sense of past experience. Building on his 45 years of successful treatment of trauma and utilizing case studies from his own practice, Dr. Levine suggests that there are elements of truth in both camps. While acknowledging that memory can be trusted, he argues that the only truly useful memories are those that might initially seem to be the least reliable: memories stored in the body and not necessarily accessible by our conscious mind. While much work has been done in the field of trauma studies to address "explicit" traumatic memories in the brain (such as intrusive thoughts or flashbacks), much less attention has been paid to how the body itself stores "implicit" memory, and how much of what we think of as "memory" actually comes to us through our (often unconsciously accessed) felt sense. By learning how to better understand this complex interplay of past and present, brain and body, we can adjust our relationship to past trauma and move into a more balanced, relaxed state of being. Written for trauma sufferers as well as mental health care practitioners, Trauma and Memory is a groundbreaking look at how memory is constructed and how influential memories are on our present state of being.

How many of your psychiatric patients have a history of severe physical or psychological abuse or other psychological trauma? These patients often present diagnostic dilemmas, get a variety of diagnoses, and frequently prove difficult-to-treat. They may have syndromes that are reminiscent of the post-traumatic sequelae in adults, such as physiological hyperactivity, a sense of loss of control, passivity alternating with uncontrolled violence, and sleep disturbances including nightmares. Investigating the impact of the traumatic event in connection with the development of the disorder is essential to an effective treatment approach.Psychological Trauma provides a basis for understanding human response to trauma. The consequences of specific traumas have usually been described as separate entities. This is the first book to examine human response to trauma as a whole. In this thorough study of the biologic, psychodynamic and social consequences of trauma, separate chapters explore: The impact of separation from the parental figure on a child's development, including cognitive and neurological disturbances; The psychobiology of traumatic response; Traumatic antecedents of borderline personality disorder; The effect of trauma on the family unit; Amnesia and dissociation as response to trauma; A stress management approach that can be incorporated into the treatment of patients