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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| On Building Bridges | |
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| Working with the Body Does Not Require Touch | |
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| The False Memory Controversy | |
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| Organization of This Book | |
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| A Disclaimer | |
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| Theory | |
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| Overview of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): The Impact of Trauma on Body and Mind | |
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| Charlie and the Dog, Part I | |
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| The Symptomatology of PTSD | |
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| Distinguishing Stress, Traumatic Stress, PTS, and PTSD | |
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| Survival and the Nervous System | |
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| Defensive Response to Remembered Threat | |
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| Dissociation, Freezing, and PTSD | |
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| Consequences of Trauma and PTSD | |
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| Development, Memory, and the Brain | |
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| The Developing Brain | |
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| What is Memory? | |
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| The Body Remembers: Understanding Somatic Memory | |
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| The Sensory Roots of Memory | |
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| Charlie and the Dog, Part II | |
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| The Autonomic Nervous System: Hyperarousal and the Reflexes of Fight, Flight, and Freeze | |
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| The Somatic Nervous System: Muscles, Movement, and Kinesthetic Memory | |
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| Emotions and the Body | |
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| Expressions of Trauma Not Yet Remembered: Dissociation and Flashbacks | |
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| Dissociation and the Body | |
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| Flashbacks | |
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| Practice | |
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| First, Do No Harm | |
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| On Braking and Accelerating | |
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| Evaluation and Assessment | |
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| The Role of the Therapeutic Relationship in Trauma Therapy | |
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| Safety | |
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| Developing and Reacquainting Resources | |
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| Oases, Anchors, and the Safe Place | |
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| The Importance of Theory | |
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| Respecting Individual Differences | |
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| Ten Foundations for Safe Trauma Therapy | |
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| The Body as Resource | |
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| Body Awareness | |
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| Making Friends with Sensations | |
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| The Body as Anchor | |
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| The Body as Gauge | |
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| The Body as Brake | |
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| The Body as Diary: Making Sense of Sensations | |
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| Somatic Memory as Resource | |
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| Facilitating Trauma Therapy Using the Body as Resource | |
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| Additional Somatic Techniques for Safer Trauma Therapy | |
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| Dual Awareness | |
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| Muscle Toning: Tension vs. Relaxation | |
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| Physical Boundaries | |
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| The Question of Client-Therapist Touch | |
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| Mitigating Session Closure | |
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| Somatic Memory Becomes Personal History | |
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| Beware the Wrong Road | |
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| Separating Past from Present | |
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| Working with the Aftermath of the Trauma First | |
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| Bridging the Implicit and the Explicit | |
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| Charlie and the Dog, the Final Episode | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |