The body bears the burden: trauma, dissociation, and disease

Abstract

Foreword Bessel van der Kolk Preface Acknowledgments 1. Concepts of Traumatization: The Role of Boundaries 2. Trauma, Instinct, and the Brain: The Fight/Flight/Freeze Response 3. The Whiplash Syndrome I: Symptoms in Search of a Meaning 4. The Whiplash Syndrome II: A Model of the Brain in Trauma 5. Bonding, Attunement and Concepts of Homeostasis 6. Negative Neuroplasticity: Does Trauma Damage the Brain? 7. Somatic Dissocation 8. Diseases of Traumatic Stress 9. Trauma Reenactment 10. Sources of Trauma 11. Trauma Therapy: Essential Ingredients 12. Case Histories: The Somatic Spectrum of Trauma Epilogue Notes Index