Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment: 0 (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)

The book which I listened to on audio is outstanding with excellent narration by Paul Brion - it helps therapists dissociative survivors/complex-trauma sufferers a deeper understanding of the physical/textual traumatic memories which are contained in our bodies and which deplete our lives in such profound ways. Talking to any therapist about the tragic narratives isn't sufficient to heal or process traumatic injuries rather the physical imprints of such injuries on our bodies is the subject of this great book - it wants to empower us through physical posture movements but only in ways that are safe for all of us especially important for survivors who have parts of themselves and long-held in rigid survivalist mechanisms and reluctant to see any other world because sadly there has only ever been trauma so play positive emotions explored in the last chapters can be so fraught so coming to a equality of purpose and working on slivers of traumatic memories whilst acknowleding that therapy is about risk and dealing with uneasy feelings. The book is very clearly laid out - what seems so complex at the start of listening to the book then becomes very translatable within the rest of the book. I really enjoyed listening to the book and came out of it very fulfilled - Way in front of just talking therapies because the enormity of the suffering is contained within our bodies and they are pleading for freedom.

This is a hefty tome of a book which I think must be the 'bible' of sensorimotor psychotherapy. That said I found it remarkably easy to dip into and read. I haven't attempted to read it cover to cover yet but instead have dived into various chapters which are clearly laid out with explanation of the exercises/worksheets that follow. It would be of interest to anyone who has experienced trauma [though you may want to work with a therapist for some of the work] and anyone who is working with people who've experienced trauma. The idea being to work through bottom-up processing - working through the body - as well as through top-down processing [which uses the thinking / pre frontal cortex of the brain]. Working through the body is deemed to be far more effective when working with trauma / PTSD etc. Working through the body might initially sound like a slightly wacky approach but the more I read about it the more convinced I am that this approach is more effective, and gives far greater hope of recovery, than a medicated/solely top-down approach.

For practitioners and clients of all persuasions - Especially for those looking beyond the usual self narratives and who look for a more body based approach. Applying recent research into what sustains lasting change in the field of trauma and attachment, in my opinion this is the first of it's kind and hopefully not the last ! The book can be used in many different ways- For each of the three phases of sensorimotor psychotherapy, theory is followed by plenty of worksheets This is an experiential body based approach. In order to get the most out of it, you will need to ensure that phase one is covered well and used throughout the other two phases The endorements speak for themselves with names such as Bromberg, Siegal, Van Der Kolk and of course Porges As Porges says himself - ' This is a landmark book in the histoy of body psychotherapy' I can't add to that !

This is a really comprehensive, brave and honest tome. It accompanies the earlier publication Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor approach to Psychotherapy by Ogden, Minton and Pain in 2006. It has so much rich material for the Therapist and Therapy sessions.

Having waited two years for the final publication of this book it was disappointing to find that I was ploughing through the first 100 pages with great difficulty. Previous books by Ogden have been pretty readable but this feels laborious and repetitive. Some apparent American neologisms like " disconfirm" are distracting but I suppose that is my British prejudice. It is quite annoying that this book is supposed to be at least partly a self help book and there is no indication of this on the cover and the authorial voice addresses scientific stuff, the therapist and the client separately. The language and structure in my view is not really clear enough for clients unfamiliar with psychotherapy terminology and I would not recommend it to a client. There are uncopyable worksheets in the e-book which is not really useful so if you are a therapist or client you may want to buy the expensive print version. After chapter 18 it became more readable and I copied 23 pages of it which were very useful in helping me understand and use sensorimotor methods.

Essential reading for all therapists who understand how important the body is in healing trauma. I wouldn't be without this book now as I can apply many of the ideas covered in this manual to nearly all of my clients.

An amazing informative book that is easily readable and understandable not just for the therapist but for the everyday person.

Inspiring

This book is an amazing resource. It feels like being able to sit down with a trauma expert any hour of the day and learn something really valuable. As a trauma survivor I have already gained huge insight and shifted on a major issue I've been stuck on forever in just the few days I've been working with this book, and learnt so much about my reactions. It's written in a very easy to read style, given the dense material it covers; and the worksheets make it so real, really helping you to internalise the learnings and discover so much about yourself. While it is written with the intention of exploring with the help of a therapist, it is so clear it is of real use to trauma survivors who don't currently have a therapist to guide them through the process: while as the authors say a book cannot replace a therapeutic relationship, this book covers so much education and things to help you realise why you react the way you do, that it goes a long way to helping even without a therapist to support the process. It's like a map and a guidebook that gives you a sense of the way ahead and how to navigate it. As a trauma survivor currently not working with a therapist, this resource is invaluable to me; and I can see it would be a valuable resource for anyone wondering if they are getting what they need to out of working with their current therapist too. If you, as either therapist or client, are skeptical about the need to include the somatic in therapy, this book is likely to convince you. I've heard too many trauma survivors say that talking about what happened is the real therapy and the somatic interventions are just like band-aids: this book is likely to help you to see that as trauma and attachment issues reside in the more primitive parts of our brain, whose language is rooted far more in the somatic than verbal, working with the body in this way is essential for real healing. There are so many trauma survivors who are in talk therapy and are just as destabilised years into therapy as when they began, and this book contains the skills they need to learn to be able to move forward with their healing and be more functional with the challenges of daily life. An incredible amount of work must have gone into creating this, it is so educational and the worksheets are so well laid out. I hope this becomes a text for every trainee therapist to read (and every experienced one too!) I recommend getting the print version unless you have a big screen on your computer to be able to view the worksheets (it is really set up for printed rather than reading on a kindle, the worksheets are pretty much impossible to read on my kindle screen). Huge thanks to the authors for the incredible amount of work that must have gone into creating such a phenomenal resource; and for your really generous sharing of your knowledge and processes. Update: I thought I'd post an update after working with the book for a while. I'm really starting to understand my reactions so much better as a result of working with this book. I am in recovery from DID and find the sections on adapting the material for highly dissociative clients invaluable. I think I've come to understand the DID better from this book than the vast amount of books I've read specifically on DID. I wish everyone who is highly dissociative could work with this material, it can make such a difference.

Il miglior libro recente che propone per i professionisti della clinica del corpo, interessanti e validi protolingua applicativi per trattamenti personalizzati documentati per operatori e clienti.

More on trauma from one of the greats in the field. This is a text-book, so best for people who are practicing in some way. It's written for clinicians and clients to work through together but clinicians can also pick exercises to use with clients in sessions without clients using the book themselves. The exercises provided are extremely valuable, and may be applicable to interventions from a variety of modalities (including CBT, DBT, ACT, IFS, interpersonal process approach, etc) in addition to sensorimotor psychotherapy. Amazing description and understanding of dissociative processes. Her non-pathologizing stance towards the "parts" of self promotes a sense of safety and acceptance for all of the client's experiences. The explanations of how to adapt the content when working with clients who dissociate is highly appreciated. I recommend this book and will be reading further into this area.

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A great read and one of the most thorough and easy to understand depiction of the importance of Attachment theory in psychotherapy.