- Paperback: 250 pages
- Publisher: Informa Healthcare (8 Aug 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0789012464
- ISBN-13: 978-0789012463
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 14.7 x 1.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 750,358 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Measure the neurophysiological changes associated with PTSD and whiplash!Using the clinical model of the whiplash syndrome, this groundbreaking book describes the alterations in brain chemistry and function induced in individuals by what is known as traumatic stress or traumatization--experiencing a life-threatening event while in a state of helplessness. The Body Bears the Burden: Trauma, Dissociation, and Disease presents evidence of the resulting and relatively permanent alteration in neurophysiology, neurochemistry, and neuronal organization. This book convincingly demonstrates that these changes create lasting effects on the emotional and physical well-being of the victim--changes correlated with many of the most common, yet poorly understood, physical complaints and diseases, including whiplash, migraines, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, and other painful, difficult-to-treat conditions. Further, the causes and effects of retraumatization are explored, clarifying the reasons some patients suffer fresh trauma over relatively minor incidents while others handle major traumas more easily. This groundbreaking volume backs up its new theory of PTSD neurophysiology with cogent theory and persuasive evidence, including:
- case studies correlating clinical features of trauma and dissociation with compelling physiological rationales for the symptoms
- solid documentation drawing from the medical and psychiatric literature of PTSD, whiplash, brain injury, epidemiology of trauma, and a variety of disease processes linked to trauma
- in-depth discussions of medical traumatization of patients, including the results of pediatric procedures and ineffective anesthesia
- demonstrations that somatization and conversion are not imagined symptoms but result from measurable autonomic physiological alteration of the affected organ
- a well-documented exploration of the effect of prenatal and neonatal trauma on later emotional development, response to traumatic life events, and disease and mortality
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18 of 23 people found the following review helpful
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Like me, have you never fully recovered following a "trivial" whiplash injury? Have you felt "odd" ever since? Are you stressed, things getting on top of you? Do you despair that no one, not even the doctors, seem to understand?
Scaer does!
This fascinating read explores the biochemical changes which can develop, following a soft tissue trauma, into an array of "unusual and multisystemic symptoms so universal and consistent from patient to patient that they either constitute a vast medicolegal conspiracy to defraud the auto insurance industry, or a remarkably consistent and reproducible clinical syndrome".
How wonderful to discover I am not alone in my suffering, that I am actually quite 'normal' (considering what my body has suffered). And how wonderful to find his review of a variety of treatments.
I hope this book instills some hope in you too!
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104 of 104 people found the following review helpful
Explains PTSD Like Nothing Else
13 Jun 2003
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Here finally is the neurological basis for the weirdly persistent, highly distressing, ever-cycling symptoms of posttraumatic stress. Don't let the medical terminology stop you from reading this book. It's a stunning revelation to see how physiologically based this syndrome really is, rooted as it is in the survival imperative of the freeze response and it's cognitive partner, dissociation. Makes those diagnostic categories which most of us therapists got trained on pretty irrelevant! I leaned heavily on the fabulous info in this book to write my own chapter on the physiology of PTSD. It's a must read for people with PTSD, their family, friends and counselors.
49 of 52 people found the following review helpful
The body does bear the burden
30 Jan 2006
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When a thoughtful individual takes the time to summarize 30 years of experience, I view this as a great gift. When his insights allow us to help in treatment, it is a blessing. His major thesis is that trauma, when it produces a chronic stress disorder, can manifest in peculair physical ways. This is the key insight and Dr. Scaer backs his observations with lots of clinical and research data. No doubt some will find this a rigorous read, but it is well worth the effort. I had the opportunity to try this theory. A teacher in a rough part of town ( I live in NYC) witnessed in his class a fight where a student viciously punched a girl in the head, when the teacher interevened, the next blow was to the back of his head sending him into the chalk board and breaking his glasses. He presented 5 days later with classic post concussion syndrome of impaired memory, inablility to read and other congnitve deficits. Before I read Dr. Scaer's book, I would have have not been able to treat him, for, from a medical point of view, it was all the brain banging aroung in his skull that caused this. However, Dr. Scaer made me think that this was instead a PTSD from having witnessed a vicious attack. I treated him with EFT and remarkably two days later he was normal! (This would have usually taken many weeks). We are all searching for ways to treat PTSD, but at least we can now view some mystifying symptoms in a model for which hopefully soon we will be able to fix. Kudos, Dr. Scaer.
20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Should be in the library of healthcare providers
2 April 2008
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I like the first edition and this edition is even better!
I work in OB and have seen so many people who have been traumatized by the birth experience- both patients and healthcare givers alike.
I speak on "When Birth Causes Trauma" alot and this is one of the books that I refer my audience to.
This book should be in the library of everyone who deals with patients who have had a traumatic experience and any healthcare giver who has had a traumatic experience.
Paulina Perez, RN, BSN
I work in OB and have seen so many people who have been traumatized by the birth experience- both patients and healthcare givers alike.
I speak on "When Birth Causes Trauma" alot and this is one of the books that I refer my audience to.
This book should be in the library of everyone who deals with patients who have had a traumatic experience and any healthcare giver who has had a traumatic experience.
Paulina Perez, RN, BSN
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