Trauma-Sensitive Yoga in Therapy: Bringing the Body Into Treatment

by David Emerson

When treating a client who has suffered from interpersonal trauma--whether chronic childhood abuse or domestic violence, for example--talk therapy isn't always the most effective course. For these individuals, the trauma and its effects are so entrenched, so complex, that reducing their experience to a set of symptoms or suggesting a change in cognitive frame or behavioral pattern ignores a very basic but critical player: the body.

In cases...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393709507
• ISBN13: 9780393709506
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.3"