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Our experiences of trauma sow the seeds of many medical problems and because of an inadequate understanding of the relationship of mind and body in processing trauma, many suffer needlessly from exposure to it. Here a neurologist offers hope to those who wish to transform trauma and better understand their lives.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This exceptionally well written and informative book should be required reading for anyone interested in holistic health care. It made me realise that virtually all of us in the so-called developed world are affected by unresolved traumas to some degree or other and that PTSD is a causative or contributing factor in many of our common ailments. I am grateful to Robert Scaer for having the courage to risk his reputation by stepping outside the medical/scientific orthodoxy and presenting a compelling case that the body, brain, emotions, and psyche are not separate elements but are in fact integral aspects of one continuum.
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Scaer Has Clearly Taken His Own Cure!
19 Oct 2006
Format:Hardcover
Here's a book that is just superb, in my book! Scaer is a retired medical doctor who no longer gives a rat's butt about being censured by the AMA. Just my kinda guy! And he has definitely NAILED all the ways that unresolved embodied trauma directs virtually everything in our lives from the kinds of work we do, to the kinds of parents we become, to the kinds of health issues and illnesses we encounter, to the kinds of friends and life partners we end up with. An amazingly, coherent, comprehensive account by someone who has unquestionably cleared out a lot of his own embodied trauma along the way.
23 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Excellent Trauma Discussion
16 April 2007
Format:Hardcover
I am profoundly grateful for this excellent book. As a clinical psychologist, I see traumatized individuals every day and this book explains so much about why this happens and what to do in treatment. This book fills in the blanks of the previous literature on this emerging field of psychology. Buy it!
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
A "must read" book...
25 Jun 2010
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When I first heard Dr. Scaer speak I kept thinking, "Why doesn't everyone know this stuff?!?!" Specifically, every healthcare provider should be required to read and understand what is being said in this book. But I also believe that the book could shed light for anyone who is not a medical worker, on understanding the "why and where" of how one feels and/or is struggling without success in trying to find healing with a chronic health condition. The content is so intuitive to my experience personally, as well as professionally as a healthcare provider, that I wouldn't care if it wasn't backed by science, but it is, and I would say even more so than Dr. Scaer gives himself or the material credit for. If someone feels the book is controversial then they are simply not versed in current scientific findings in mind-body medicine, psychoneuroendoimmunology, quantum physics, etc. I want to shout out, "There are reasons for your chronic pain... there is always a reason..." and it is found in this book. The problem is many are not ready to do the intense inner work and somatoemotional processing that it actually takes to reach a point of "discharge" of the freeze response. It is unconsciously held in the body for a reason... it is, by definition, "traumatic" content and it could annihilate someone if it came up and out all at once... you would dissociate or split off again if that happened. Anyway, trauma definition needs radical expansion and revamping but those that are responsible for such definitions are probably bound by unconscious trauma themselves and it is too scary to go there, but it shouldn't be this way. This book gives hope for the medical community to start to move towards integrative understanding of chronic health conditions. I would like to put in a plug that an additional treatment modality not mentioned that can help greatly with healing of trauma is guided imagery and the series by Belleruth Naparstek is the best place to go for this modality. Her imagery specific to trauma is incredibly powerful and imagery as a whole facilitates the right brain, sensory processing that is necessary to begin to access and transform trauma biology in the brain, nervous system and peripheral tissues of the body. For those not working with a mind-body practitioner, they may need to start with a more basic or gentler imagery than the PTSD one, such as Panic or Relaxation and Wellness or Depression for awhile first. OK, back to the book. It is well written and is a "must read" and I offer Dr. Scaer gratitude for his commitment to get this information out there. It is BADLY needed in the medical community.
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