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Many traumatized individuals are too hypervigilant to enjoy the ordinary pleasures that life has to offer, while other are too numb to absorb new experiences – or to be alert to signs of real danger. When the smoke detectors of the brain malfunction, people no longer run when they should be trying to escape or fight back when they should be defending themselves.
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― The Body Keeps the Score / Trauma and Recovery / Hidden Healing Powers
― The Body Keeps the Score / Trauma and Recovery / Hidden Healing Powers
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As connection to the therapist is established, the therapeutic relationship offers an opportunity for the client to experience a present attachment, but it also brings up transferential tendencies associated with past attach ment relationships (Sable, 2000). Informed by the experience of interperesonal trauma and betrayal, posttraumatic transferential relationships can be exceptionally potent and volatile. In response to the therapist, clients experience fear, anger, mistrust, and suspicion, as
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― Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy
― Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy
