Dunlea Marian - Bodydreaming In The Treatment Of Developmental Trauma An Embodied Therapeutic Approach - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Winner of the NAAP 2019 Gradiva Award! Winner of the IAJS Book Award for Best Book published in 2019! Marian Dunlea's Body Dreaming 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. Body Dreaming is a somatically focused therapeutic method drawing on the findings of neuroscience analytical psychology attachment theory and trauma therapy. In Part I Dunlea defines Body Dreaming and its origins placing it in the context of a dysregulated contemporary world. Part II explains how the brain works in relation to the Body Dreaming 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 Body Dreaming on attachment patterns and developmental trauma. This somatic approach complements and enhances psychobiological developmental and psychoanalytic interventions. Body Dreaming 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 Body Dreaming 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.
Title: Bodydreaming In The Treatment Of Developmental Trauma An Embodied Therapeutic Approach
Author(s): Dunlea Marian
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780367025946
Pages: 290 Pages, 4 Line Drawings, Black And White
Publication Date: 5/13/2019
Category: Psychotherapy